Zia Sheikh – Ramadan Reminders Day 4

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The segment discusses the strategies used by Muslims to demoralize their community and attract new Muslims to Islam. The first strategy was to encourage them to sign up for a book and leave Islam, but many people left because of the lack of access to information. The second strategy was to encourage them to verify ownership of the land, but there were never fixed prices or false commitments. The third strategy was to convince them to sell them something, but there was never a fixed price.

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			You know, it's something that as Muslims we
		
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			should not like, but it's also something very
		
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			demoralizing for the other Muslims too.
		
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			Obviously, when somebody becomes a Muslim, we become
		
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			very happy and we appreciate it.
		
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			The fact that a person has come from
		
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			darkness to light and the fact that he
		
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			has accepted Islam and he's left a life
		
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			of what we assume to be freedom to
		
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			relative strictness of Islam.
		
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			So that is something that we really truly
		
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			admire that a person is taking that step.
		
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			But many people, like I said, because of
		
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			the lack of support, they leave Islam.
		
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			And that's why it's important for us to
		
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			make sure that this segment of our society
		
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			that we have, we make sure we support
		
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			them and make sure that they feel welcome
		
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			and they don't feel isolated in our community.
		
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			This is very, very important and that's why
		
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			I mentioned last night this Ramadan connections that
		
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			we're doing.
		
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			It is for them to be invited to
		
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			our iftar and so on.
		
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			We need everybody to sign up for that.
		
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			So this is related to the verse that
		
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			I want to talk about today.
		
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			There was a people, a group of people
		
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			from the people of the book.
		
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			They wanted to demoralize the Muslims.
		
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			And what was the strategy that they took?
		
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			They said, what we will do is at
		
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			the beginning of the day, we will say
		
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			that we are Muslims.
		
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			And at the end of the day, we
		
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			will say, no, it's, you know, I didn't
		
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			find anything good about Islam.
		
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			And what this will do is they're thinking
		
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			was that the Muslims that are new to
		
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			Islam and fresh, it will demoralize them and
		
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			it will make them slip up.
		
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			And then we will attract them out of
		
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			Islam into Kufr and disbelief.
		
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			Allah describes them.
		
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			So this was their strategy.
		
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			The beginning of the day, become Muslim.
		
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			At the end of the day, leave Islam.
		
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			And then people who are weak in the
		
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			faith or new in the faith, they will
		
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			become demoralized and leave Islam.
		
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			So again, this people leaving Islam, it is
		
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			very demoralizing for many, many people as those
		
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			people can also lead others astray.
		
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			And it can be bad for Islam itself.
		
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			So this was the strategy that was adopted
		
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			by the disbelievers that Allah mentions in Surah
		
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			Al-Imran.
		
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			Another story which is in the same vicinity
		
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			of those verses is about an incident that
		
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			took place between a Sahabi and a Jewish
		
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			person.
		
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			There was a dispute over land and they
		
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			approached the Prophet, peace be upon him, to
		
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			resolve this issue.
		
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			And the Prophet, peace be upon him, there
		
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			are many incidents in which Muslim, non-Muslim
		
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			approached the Prophet, peace be upon him, to
		
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			pass judgment.
		
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			And on many occasions, the Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, actually gave the judgment in favor
		
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			of the non-Muslim.
		
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			It wasn't a case of you're my buddy
		
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			because you're a Muslim and I'm going to
		
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			rule in your favor.
		
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			No, he always used to rule justly.
		
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			So in this particular incident, there was a
		
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			dispute over the land and the Prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him, asked the Sahabi, Do you
		
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			have any proof that this land is yours?
		
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			He said, No, Ya Rasulullah, I don't have
		
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			any proof.
		
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			Then he asked the Jewish person, Are you
		
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			willing to take an oath that this is
		
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			your land?
		
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			And from this we take the principle, Al
		
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			-Bayyinatu ala al-mudda'i wa al-yameenu
		
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			ala man ankar which means that the person
		
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			who is making a claim to something, he
		
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			has to provide proof.
		
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			And the person or basically the plaintiff, he
		
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			provides the proof and the defendant, he swears
		
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			that whatever accusation is being made against him
		
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			is true or untrue.
		
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			So basically this is what we derive from
		
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			this.
		
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			So the Sahabi protested, he said, Ya Rasulullah,
		
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			this person, he will take an oath just
		
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			like that to prove his case.
		
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			So this is not something that we can
		
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			use to accept from him because his oath
		
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			is not something which is credible.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually revealed
		
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			a verse towards the end of Surah Al
		
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			-Imran that, Inna allatheena yashsharoona bi ahdi Allahi
		
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			wa aimanihim thamanan qaleelan olaika laa khalaqa lahum
		
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			fil aakhirah wa laa yukallimuhumullah wa laa yunthuru
		
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			ilayhim yawman qiyamati wa laa yuzakkihim wa lahumu
		
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			a'zabun alim Those people that take an
		
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			oath and they try to acquire things by
		
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			taking these false oaths, they will not have
		
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			any share in the hereafter.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not
		
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			going to talk to them, nor look at
		
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			them with rahma, with mercy.
		
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			And they are going to have a very
		
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			painful punishment.
		
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			And the same selection of words actually found
		
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			in a hadith, in which the Prophet a
		
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			.s. mentioned three people who will have this
		
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			punishment on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			One of them is, The person who tries
		
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			to sell his goods with false oath and
		
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			false testimony.
		
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			And again, we see that this is so
		
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			prevalent in our own Muslim countries, right?
		
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			A person who tries to sell you something,
		
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			there's never a fixed price.
		
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			So they start off with something huge.
		
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			And if they think you're a foreigner, you
		
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			know, they think, Okay, this is my chance
		
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			to make a bit of money today.
		
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			And they will start off with a huge
		
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			price.
		
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			And then after that, haggle and negotiate.
		
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			And it comes up at a quarter of
		
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			the price that it originally was.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			But in the meantime, he's taking an oath,
		
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			oath after oath, and oath after oath, trying
		
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			to prove his point that, No, wallahi, I
		
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			got it for this price, and I'm selling
		
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			it now at a loss.
		
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			And I'm, okay, I'm trying to do it
		
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			for a clearance.
		
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			I need to get rid of this stock.
		
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			So I'll sell it to you for a
		
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			loss.
		
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			So oath after oath, look at what Allah
		
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			says about those people that take the false
		
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			oath.
		
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			There's a mention in the Hadith that the
		
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			person who takes false oath to prove a
		
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			point or to try to attain something, he
		
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			will be punished by Allah, even according to
		
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			the Hadith, even if it's something as minimal
		
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			as a miswak, you know, a small tooth
		
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			stick.
		
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			If a person tries to attain that by
		
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			taking a false oath, this will be a
		
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			source of punishment for him on the Day
		
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			of Judgment.
		
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			This taking the false oath is known in
		
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			Islam, in Sharia, as Al-yameen al-ghamus.
		
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			And ghamus in Arabic refers to a person
		
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			who takes a dive into the water, and
		
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			he's completely covered by the water.
		
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			And why is it called Al-yameen al
		
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			-ghamus?
		
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			Because when a person is doing that, he's
		
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			basically covering himself and drowning himself in sin.
		
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			That's how dangerous this is.
		
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			So it's very very important to make sure
		
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			that we never take false oaths, and we
		
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			make sure that we guard our tongues when
		
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			we are taking an oath.
		
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			What are we doing when we are taking
		
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			an oath?
		
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			We are actually making Allah a witness, making
		
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			Allah a witness for us.
		
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			That is what an oath is.
		
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			That Allah s.w.t. saw me that
		
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			I did this, or Allah s.w.t.
		
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			saw me that I didn't do this.
		
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			So basically we're making a lie up about
		
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			Allah s.w.t. So this is how
		
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			dangerous is that.
		
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			This is, you know, found very very clearly
		
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			in this ayah.
		
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			And the last thing that I want to
		
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			refer to is a person who actually during
		
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			the time of the Prophet a.s. He
		
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			was a Muslim, he left Islam, and then
		
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			he wanted to, he had, he thought a
		
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			little bit about it, researched a little bit
		
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			more about it, and then he wanted to
		
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			come back to Islam.
		
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			Allah s.w.t. revealed some verses about
		
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			him.
		
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			And these verses, they seem very condemning of
		
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			such a person who would do such a
		
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			thing, that he had Hidayah, and he had
		
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			guidance, he left the guidance, and basically left
		
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			Islam.
		
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			But how can that person be guided?
		
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			But then after that, there's an exception to
		
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			the rule.
		
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			Allah s.w.t. says except for those
		
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			people that make Tawbah, and then they resurrected
		
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			themselves, corrected themselves, and indeed Allah s.w
		
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			.t. He is Ghafoor Rahim, He is Forgiving
		
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			and Merciful.
		
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			So many people just think that okay, he's
		
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			becoming, he's become an apostate, he's left Islam,
		
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			there's no hope for him, there's no chance
		
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			for him.
		
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			No, there's always a chance.
		
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			There's always an opportunity to talk to him,
		
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			to advise him, to answer his misunderstandings and
		
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			misconceptions.
		
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			Generally speaking, generally speaking, people leave Islam or
		
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			don't get attracted to Islam because of lack
		
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			of knowledge or because of misinformation.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Misinformation or they haven't had their questions answered
		
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			by somebody.
		
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			Usually if they had sat down with somebody
		
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			and talked to somebody and presented their questions
		
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			to somebody, the most likely result of that
		
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			would be that they would have been confident
		
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			that Islam is the true religion, but because
		
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			they didn't get the right information from the
		
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			right sources, that is why those people become
		
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			misguided.
		
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			But even those people, there's always an opportunity
		
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			for them, as we see from this selection
		
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			of verses, I pray that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala gives us tawfiq to understand what
		
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			has been said and heard.
		
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			Dr. Yahya, please, inshallah, move forward.
		
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			I don't know what you are talking about.
		
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			You are talking about me.
		
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			But you are talking about compassion.
		
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			Yes, I am talking about compassion.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			You are dedicated.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.
		
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			Tawfiq.