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Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh

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smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Juana Illa. Allah wa meanwhile Arqiva to Allah masala cinema barichara, avocado, silica Mohammed and sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, while early he will stop your Salaam to see him and cathedra.

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You know, usually when I when I come to a nickname relief event, I have to do the fundraising. And so I have to give a certain message to do the fundraising. But today I can give something that has absolutely nothing to do with money. And challah Tada, because I'm not the one doing the fundraising. And we can talk about something, which I feel like is very, very, very crucial. Obviously, many of us were very disheartened that Arnold Van Doren was not allowed into the country and was not allowed to board that plane. And of course, you know, Subhanallah, this was unexpected. And I just want you all to think for a moment, you know, I had the I had the opportunity to meet him

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in Canada, because that's where everybody goes, when they can't get into America, they go to Canada. So, anytime you want to meet any of these people, you just go up to Canada to one of the conventions. Ironically, it was Nick, Nick convention last year, and I had the opportunity to sit with him and talk to him. And I have to admit that whenever he first you know, became Muslim, like many people, I was skeptical. I mean, this man has produced a film against the Prophet slice on one of the worst movies Islamophobic films that's ever been produced, used to speak just pure venom, and somehow a lot just to go from that to saying he's Muslim, all of a sudden, I was like, Is this some

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kind of joke? Has his Twitter account been hacked? You know, what's going on here? So, you know, it was really, it was really an honor, you know, to really just to sit with him and to listen to him and to hear his thoughts and Subhanallah we both just gotten back from Hutch. And from hedge. You know, we were talking about our experiences in hedge together. And he was telling me about the most powerful experience that he had over there, which was one he passed by the grave of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. Hence, the title of the article, that he fell in front of the grave of the Prophet. So I sent him and he said, I'm sorry, oh, Prophet, I'm sorry, oh, Prophet. And he broke

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down into tears realizing that this man sallallahu alayhi wa sallam peace be upon him was the man that he had been slandering the men that he had been speaking out against the men that he had been saying so much about in the past. And I want you to just think about this for a moment. How do you have such a transformation in a man's life? And, you know, although we're upset, perhaps that we didn't get to meet him this time. But this is part of a bigger issue. Why do you think they didn't let him board that plane? Are they afraid that he's an extremist? Are they afraid that he's a terrorist? Are they afraid that he's a man of violence? No, they're afraid of something far greater

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than that. They're afraid of him unlocking people's hearts. And showing what as Thomas Carlyle said, The Great French philosopher, that the heap of lies that we have surrounded the character of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him with is only a disgrace to ourselves. It's a disgrace to ourselves, that, that we have surrounded this man's character, sallAllahu, Alayhi, wasallam, with so many lies, and think about this on a on a on a bigger level. You know, if you look at the media today, and if you look at the news today, you find people that are that are speaking and that are representing their positions, their political positions. And obviously, the media, you know, has

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become nothing more than a spot for campaigning on steroids, right. I mean, there are lobbyists now towards the media, certain positions are put out there. And the hatred that's being put in people's hearts towards Muslims is dangerous. It's extremely dangerous. How many of you heard about what happened in Sacramento two days ago? Anyone heard about what happened in Sacramento? See, this type of stuff doesn't make mainstream news. Unfortunately, there was a young man by the name of Hudson in his 20s, walking with his sister who wears a job at Home Depot. And Amanda started to yell racial slurs at them. And it didn't stop at that he followed them to their car. And as he's loading up his

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trunk in the parking lot of a Home Depot just two days ago, in 2014, the man pulls out a gun and shoots him to death point blank.

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Can you imagine that? This is dangerous stuff. Now, do you think that that men read about Islam? Do you think that that man had ever sat with a Muslim? Do you think that that man had ever been at an event or had ever been in a disaster in which Akin relief was there or a Muslim organization was there and he saw Muslims smiling at him and serving Him? Do you think any of those things know you hate what you don't know? And it's as simple as that. And one of the things that we see with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Look, the people that are out there, the talking heads that are out there are not in

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Educated bunch. And I've said this before, I think in Miami last year, and I'll say it again anyway. But it's not an educated bunch. And in fact, if I mentioned some of the main pundits, the main people out there media spokespersons out there, if you will.

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And I and I will say names not because I'm picking on a certain orientation or anything of that sort. But if you How many of you have heard of glenn beck before?

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How many of you have heard of rush limbaugh? How many of you have heard of sean hannity, not a single one of them has a college education

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42% of public opinion, they're commenting on religion, anthropology, politics history, telling you how you should be viewing the world with a very uneducated base. Why is that? Because if you already hate something, if you have something in your heart against a person or against a group of people or against a religion, then you will accept anything that is said about them.

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And that's why Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, something very powerful. So just as FLIR to the brunette or an MLM Lubin?

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Are they incapable of comprehending the message of the Quran? Or do they have locks on their hearts, and a lot of times, we just say that we're talking about Muslims, right? Talking about our sins prevented us from properly appreciating the poor and from properly drawing close to Allah, and from properly enjoying our faith and contemplating and reflecting, which is true. But it also shows us something else that's really, really, really important. And that is in the Battle of hearts and minds, the Battle of the heart is far more important than the Battle of the minds. If a person hates you, and if a person has had their heart filled with hatred towards you, what's going to change them

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is not walking up to them and handing them a copy of the Quran. What might change them is that while you're handing them a copy of the Quran, you have a huge smile on your face. And you say Good morning, sir. Good morning, ma'am. I just wanted to share this with you. And what would be even greater than that is if you were to share with them the message of Islam without even giving them any material. As the law I know used to say kuno do it and allow me to be callers to Allah subhanaw taala even as you are quiet, they said how can we be callers to allow without saying anything? He said, Look, with good character, you can call people to a loss of Hannah Montana and know our

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message is not to convert anyone, not a qualified Dean. There is no compulsion religion. We're not here to convert anyone. And you know, what, if you go to these disaster response sites, I was, you know, primarily, I spent a lot of time in Hurricane Katrina relief, because I'm from New Orleans, you know, you would see that many religious organizations were taping pages of Scripture to the relief boxes. And it upset people. You know, as one as one person said, you know, and I'll never forget this. Pamela is being interviewed by the advocate in Louisiana. He said that I feel like we're being spiritually molested. Those are the words that he used, meaning what its disaster

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relief. We're trying to eat and drink, we're trying to get shelter, and people are shoving down certain religions and certain ideologies and certain verses down our throats and trying to convert us. We want to be fed right now. We want shelter right now. And I'm humbled, I can tell you something, that that's one of the things that extra relief is appreciated for in the realm of disaster response, that we don't do that. There is no, there is no conversion going on there. There's nothing going on there except for doing what we're supposed to do as Muslims because we do this stuff, not as a PR campaign. We do this because we're supposed to do this. We serve people

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because we're supposed to serve people. You know, it's not.

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We're and some how many times we forget that if the only realm that we address ignorantly from and we address disaster relief from is data and calling people to a loss of hundreds and then that's a very flawed understanding of faith in and of itself. And so we look at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and we don't find that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used every opportunity to throw in or adverse, rather we find that the Prophet slicin have won those hearts with his character. And I want you to think about this. You know, the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, was tested in every way. You know, people stepped on his neck while he was praying. People put camel

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guts on his back, people spit on him, people cursed at him. People mocked him, his family was boycotted the poor amongst his followers were tortured in front of him and persecuted in front of him and he wasn't able to do anything. He went through all kinds of persecution. And the end goal of that persecution to the others was was really to get him to act like them, to get him to stoop to their level to get him to snap and curse and and come out there and show that show that viciousness that they're saying really exists within Islam. And when he didn't do that, it frustrated them even more. And and really when you look

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Get the profit slices message and the way that he won the hearts of people. I want you just to think about this, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when he comes back into Mecca

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as a victor as a man who has come back to the land that he was persecuted in and run out of the to the same people that killed his own family members, to the same people that slaughtered some of the most the most beloved people to him that mutilated the body of his uncle, that caused his wife to die in those harsh economic circumstances and his uncle as well as other uncle elbow pileup. His most beloved uncle, all of these things that he went through, and you know, there's this idea, by the way, that when the Prophet slicin came to Mecca, he forced everyone to become Muslim.

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You know, how many people became Muslim on the day of the conquest of Mecca? 56 you know, how many Sahaba there were about 60,000

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the fact that the prophets lies only 56 people became Muslim on the day that the prophets lie Selim conquered Mecca and I have a hard time even calling it a conquest. Because the way he marched in Salalah alayhi wa sallam with his face to his to his to the back of his riding beast, and calling out to people that come out, you are safe, lots of three barley chameleon, there is no blame on you today. Today, there is no blame upon you. May Allah forgive you, for him to call out with those same words that use of Islam, the Prophet Joseph peace be upon him said to his brothers, and to say there is no blame upon you. Yeah, he could have made an example out of those people. He could have, you

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know, taken those people out, and he could have done the same things to them that they did to his family members. But this was greater than that. There was something more that was to be achieved. There was something about his character, there was something about his message. It was genuine. It wasn't just there's no compulsion in religion when we're weak. And then when we're in power, now all of a sudden, hey, you either become Muslim or die. It wasn't that it was the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam even when he had the opportunity to do things to people, you know what we even find after the conquest of Mecca, there was a man by the name of full Bala Alessi and Fabiola. Alessi

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actually came to Mecca to assassinate the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. Why, because of the culture wars, at that time, that are very similar to the culture wars of today that this man is coming to change your way of life. He's coming to take away your freedom. He's coming to turn you against your parents. He's coming to do this, he's coming to do that. That's what they use the same tactics, the same top tactics, except you had people that were you know, that were that were going out of their way even around Mecca outside of Mecca to propagate this hatred and this hate mongering towards the Muslims. So falada came to assassinate the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he had a dagger

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hiding under his garment. And he started doing off he started walking around the cab while the Prophet sly son was walking around the cab. And again after the conquest of Mecca and the prophets lysozyme sees him and he's mumbling under his breath. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he goes up to him and he says, Yeah, football Lima two had the two knapsack. He smiles at me. He says, What do you mumbling? What are you talking to yourself about? He said, I'm just remembering along just praying, remembering Allah. prophets lie. Some said, okay, kept walking. Second rounds, full Donna starts coming close to the prophets lie Selim. He's mumbling. He's kind of breathing a little bit

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hard because he knows what he's about to do. As soon as he kills the profit slice on he's going to be killed. He's on a suicide mission. I mean, it really is a suicide mission. As soon as he kills him, he's dead. So he's getting nervous. He's mumbling the prophets lie some turns around. He says, Yeah, hold on. Bhima to have different upset he smiles at him again and he says, oh, football, what are you talking to yourself about? He said, The auto civil law, a two fourth Corolla. He kind of got a little annoyed that he asked him that question again. He said, I'm just remembering a lot of doing philosophy. So third time came.

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And the prophets lie some turned around to him again, and he turned to him with his entire body. And he said, Yeah, football, love him to death in a sec. He said, Oh, football, what are you talking to yourself about? And so he raised his voice at the prophets lie Selim said, O Messenger of Allah of both was Corolla, making palot I'm remembering Allah subhanho wa Taala.

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Now the prophets lie. Selim walked up to football, and he put his hand on his chest.

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And the prophets lie Selim started to rub his hands on his chest. And he started to pray for him. And footballer he says, in these words, Florida says that there was no face on the face of the earth. No Name out of all of the names of the of the people of the earth. And no mention that was more hated to me than that of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam. But as soon as he put his hands on

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My chest and prayed for me. He said he became the most beloved face, the most beloved name, and the most beloved mentioned in the entire world to me,

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and he became Muslim. Now here's the thing. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam knew that he was there to assassinate him. He could have made an example out of him to write, just like his enemies did. They tried to take some of those early Muslims and they tried to torture them in public so that they could deter anyone else from considering this message. The prophets I seldom took the moral high ground which we need to do as a community, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam instead of killing him and making an example out of him, and it would have been justified the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught him what this message was all about. He won his heart, the

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prophets lysozyme didn't need to sit there and have a debate with him at that point. He didn't have to talk to him over here, because the message already made sense. But the hatred in the heart was preventing him from even considering the message. And so if you free the hearts, the minds will be freed as well. And that's what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us in many, many different ways. And so forget about all of these people that have spoken ill of the prophets license today. And these people that think that Islam is a message of hate, and that fit, you know, say these terrible things about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, read what Gandhi wrote, read

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what Sir George Bernard Shaw wrote, read what Orwell wrote about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, the historians of history, have looked at the character of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam, and fallen in love with him, fallen in love, particularly with the way that he treated others. And the way that he always took the moral high ground, and the way that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam killed his enemies with love.

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He killed them with love. And you know, I know that a few years ago, just think about this. People are upset Muslims here were upset. And they were upset in Houston and New York as well that Arnold Van Doren does not come and we didn't get to meet him. And many of us, many of us wanted that chance to perhaps hug him, get a picture with him and say, you know, congratulations, thank you for everything that you're doing things of that sort. Can you imagine if two years ago, you'd found out that Arnold Van Doren was in town?

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No, I hope that no one would have tried to kill him. All right. Or else we would need to report you okay. But how many people would want us how many Muslims hated his guts at that point? How many Muslims would have wanted to go up to him and just yell at him and curse him out? How many people how many Muslims would have wanted to protest is coming? How many how many press conferences would we have had with our Muslim organizations to say that this is a hate preacher, a hate monger, you shouldn't be allowed in the city. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught us to be patient with people. Be patient with people, cuz sometimes they don't know any better. And it's not that

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they don't know any better up here. This is an intellectual faith. We pride ourselves on pride ourselves on being on having an intellectual faith, a message that makes sense, a message that's very simple, one God that we worship, and one god that sends prophets and messengers to call to the worship of that one God, it makes sense. That's why Islam is still the fastest growing religion in America. With all the hate propaganda, it's still the fastest growing religion in America. It's still the fastest growing religion in the world. It makes sense. That's not the issue. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was struck in the Battle of Oxford, and he fell into that ditch

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and the blood was running down his mouth and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said Aloma filippone for anomala Yana mon, Oh ALLAH forgive my people, they just don't know any better. The Prophet sighs I was not talking about Ark either or creed. He wasn't talking about theology or prayer, the prophets lysozyme was saying they don't know any better. They don't know any better about what this message is here for they don't know any better about what their purpose is in life. And what the purpose of this message is, they don't know any better. It's a matter of the heart. laham Kowloon. liahona beha Allah said they have hearts that they don't think with hearts that don't

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think because they're blinded with hatred. And you know, I always ask this question to people.

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And I and you know, I recently had a class in which we we studied this entire case study because you know, there's a statement that changes evolutionary change is not revolutionary. And many times as Muslims we make that mistake as well. You want short term results. You want things to happen extremely quick, changes evolutionary, it takes time. And I asked my students I say, Do you know who the first prophet

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that was ever mentioned in the Quran was who was the first prophet to be mentioned in the Quran?

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What do you guys think? class time

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No, not at all.

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Raise your hands. How about that? Let's do let's have a serious class session right now. Some of you copy that so far right? We had a class as two weeks ago. What is it?

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No,

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not Mohammed's Isom not Ibraheem alehissalaam not a Sally Sati Salaam. These are all great prophets Anybody else? Not Yusuf Ali his Salah. Not Musa alayhis salaam Who is it?

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No.

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Not Idris

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in the order of revelation not in sort of Bukhara you guys are getting mad at me man calm down.

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The first prophet ever revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Quran, not new allihies salaam. This is going to take 10 minutes we're going to go through all 25 mentioned in the Quran right before we get to it. The first one to ever be revealed to the prophets lie Selim. Anybody know?

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Okay, I quit.

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Yunus alayhis salam

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Ah, yeah.

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We all knew that.

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The prophet Jonah, peace be upon him. Eunice alayhis salam in the fourth surah to be revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam surah tell column. Fosbury hooked me up be kawada techwin Casa he been who it is nada. McComb, be patient with your Lord and do not be like the Companion of the whale. If he called upon a loss upon which not only when he was swallowed the Prophet Yunus it his salah and a lot did not say don't be like Jonah. Allah said Don't be like him at that point in his life. Why? Because Jonah Yunus alayhis salam looked at his people, he said you people are done. There is no good in you anymore. Allah is gonna punish you. And he walked away from his people and

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he thought this is over anyway.

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And Allah Subhana, which Allah is telling the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam don't make that same mistake. The prophets lysozyme said laya kulana documented vitamin unisoc, no matter. No one of you should say I'm better than Jonah. So Yunus is a great prophet because as a result of that experience, he learned and he lost that Vegeta ballyhoura boo luminosa hain. Allah chose him and made him from the great from the righteous is one of the greatest prophets. No one should say that they're better than Jonah. No one should say that they're better than Yunus. But don't give up on your people. Never give up on your people. They're not that they're not evil people but what's been

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preached to them as evil, and we have to make that distinction. They're not evil people are not vandoorne was not an evil person two years ago, he just didn't know any better. And it's our job to make sure that people like our news, no, no better, you know, to speak to them to show them what our prophets lie. Some taught us to show them through our character. And you know what's amazing?

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, on the worst day of his life, the worst day of his life, which was the day of life. Now put the take this into consideration. He just lost his wife. He just lost his uncle. His people were placed under boycott, they were eating leaves to survive. It was only him and his daughter Fatima in the house. I'm in the year of sadness. It just happened. The death of all of these people. And the prophets I some sees a dream.

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And he sees a dream of palm trees and some greenery, which wasn't common to Mecca. And there were two cities that were that had that greenery that had that climate. Medina, which was yesterday about the time and pontiff and the prophets lie Selim, he thought it's probably thought it's probably a sign that I should go to thought, Why? Because in Medina, they were a bunch of kids. in Medina, they just got they were in the middle of tribal warfare and Osen husbands just killed off each other's parents. Do you know that? On the day that the prophets license took the pledge from the people of Medina, only three of the unsaved were over the age of 40.

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These were young people, these were youth in Medina, that essentially you know, came set to the prophets lie, some were ready to accept to come fix our problems. We believe in you will trust you. But on the other hand, was a great town. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he makes his way to five, and he has a glimmer of hope. Instead the prophets lysozyme stays there for four days and he's mocked and ridiculed. They mock him in front of his face, they say you,

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God would send a message with you. Why not me?

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You know, I don't even want to talk to you all of the things

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People humiliated him one by one, he was rejected by the leaders. And then worse than all of that, they lined up their children. They lined up, they're super hot. Can you imagine two lines? Two lines that spans 430 kilometers how much is 30 kilometers in miles? I thought about it the other day, 18 miles about 18 miles and made the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam walk through those two lines, while they stoned him, punched him, kicked him, spit at him.

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Can you imagine what that must have been? Like? You know, I remember reading a research on reality TV a brazen reality. And they were this one reality TV first came out and they said that one consistent thing about all these reality TV shows is that they don't let the contestants sleep. Right. Why? Because they want them to be you know, they want them to be easily agitated. They want them to snap. And that's why you watch them and you're like, man, what's wrong with them. They start climbing over tables and punching each other in the face over simple arguments, because they're not sleeping. They're aggravated, and the prophets lysozyme had not slept for days. And the prophets

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lysozyme has to walk through this all by himself with a diviner Hadith also being stone, punched, kicked stones and the prophets I send them finds himself finally after that entire stretch, he finds himself in this garden.

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And the prophets lie Selim is just catching his breath,

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covered in blood, and his shoes are full of stones.

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And at that moment, as the Prophet slicin is there, he cries to Allah subhanho wa Taala he makes due to a loss of Hannah horchata complaining about that which happened to him. Now when the prophets lie Selim goes through that Allah subhanaw taala sent him gibreel Allah His Salaam, the angel Gabriel, and another angel that was in charge of the mountains, and they give the prophets I send him a choice. It's all the prophets lie some look, we've heard your complaints. If you want, we can crush everyone between these two mountains. Now by the way, how many of you have been hunted before? Do you know the area of a giant some of you might have even stayed in macadam? a jet that's the

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mountain. It's that mountain all the way to the other side of life, meaning everyone between Mecca and thought have done because of what they've done to you. And the prophets. I said, I'm even that expresses hope. Even at those moments, he has no vengeance. The prophets lie Selim says no, because maybe their children will be different. Maybe their children will say La Isla de la. We don't know. Woman Tacoma enough. See, he caught it. His thought was slim. As I saw the low Anna says he never got angry for himself. It was about his message as angry as hurt as he was, maybe from their children, something happens. The next thing that happens in that garden, the owners of that garden

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see him and they feel sorry for him, so a lot of it was stolen. And so they send their servant I dust

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and the dust comes to the prophets liason with with some grapes in his hands and he gives it to the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. And the prophets lie Selim as he's about to eat those grapes, he does something that a lot of you just forgot to do. He says Bismillah

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he says In the name of Allah.

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He does. He looks at the prophets. lysozyme and he says people in this land Don't talk like that. They don't say those words. The Prophet slice them said, Well, what land are you from? He said, The end of the story. So I already know that whole chapter of the Quran, sort of the park and the prophets licenses. How do you know? You know what he said? He said, because on the day that you came to LA if I was one of the kids that was stoning you.

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And I remember that when you were preaching to my father, and you were preaching to our people, you read that surah I said, I remembered it even then, and I never forgot it. And I recited it to myself until the day that I met you.

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You don't know. You don't know. Aloma fully call me phenomenal. Allah forgive my people. They don't know any better. Your brothers and sisters, unless we engage with our society, and hold the causes of our community in our society precious to us as a Muslim community, and deal with social justice issues of social justice and deal with issues that are important not just to a Muslim American, but to a non Muslim American as well. Then expect the hatred that is in the hearts of people to remain. But if we are able to engage with our society the way the prophets license them did, we won't have to say anything. Not so that we can make them Muslim. But you know what, there is no way you can

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read about the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon them, and not at least admire him. Not at least respect

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Tim, not at least say that this was a man of high character that was on a standard exalt that was on an exalted standard of character we're in NEC Allah, Allah. Hello quinoline You don't have to do anything anymore. And I saw that in disaster response. I've seen that when we're out there serving the homeless when we're out there and all these different projects, but it's so much more effective than just walking up to a person saying, Here, learn about Islam.

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It's so much more effective. Instead of learn about Islam, by reading, learn about Islam by watching. And I'll leave you with one more story about Our Messengers licen them and then I'll pass the mic back over. You know, this narration is narrated by NSM nomadically alongside, in soon that'd be that would that's not authentic narration that the prophets lie some and some of you might have heard, there's an se that was made about this. The Prophet slicin on one time, helped an old woman, a woman that needed help with her groceries.

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And the profit slice on went and he carried her stuff, from the soup from the marketplace back to her home, on the way from the marketplace, to her home. The only thing that she was doing was telling Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam about how evil Mohammed sly Saddam was because she didn't realize that he was Mohammed.

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Don't talk to him. Don't listen to him. Those those Muslims, you know, they're coming and they're coming to ruin everything that we do. They they're turning children against their parents. And the profit slice on them is just smiling, walking, just taking it. He's not saying anything. And you know, you're such a good young man, but I hope you never meet Muhammad. Because if you meet Mohammed Sai Salaam, then he's going to corrupt you just like he corrupted all the other youth just going on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And the prophets lie, some didn't say anything. Then at the end of the conversation, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as he's departing, she says, By

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the way, what's your name?

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says My name is Mohammed.

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He didn't have to say anything else. That was it. He did not have to say anything else. He didn't have to sit there and tell her and by the way, this is a misconception. And that's a misconception. And what you just said five minutes ago, that's a misconception. And you didn't understand this properly. Let me really explain to you what this I mean, he didn't have to do anything else. That's what I hope in Charlottetown acne relief we'll do they'll do that part of the Hadeeth. Which is in short, lots of honor. Helping people being there for people showing people as Omaha Pablo, the Allahu anhu, said, Kunal, they're out in the lower anthem salami tune, quietly, quietly

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demonstrating the beauty of this message. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala that whether it's just us in our own personal capacity, or in our own capacities of just dealing with our neighbors, or if it's just us dealing with a waitress at a restaurant, or dealing with someone who's looking at you the wrong looking at you funny at a gas station, or a professor that perhaps is discriminating against you just a little bit who's making some sharper remarks towards your way, we ask a lot that he allows us to win their hearts that he allows us to at that moment, you know, put our egos down, and for the sake of a greater good and a greater cause. smile at them. And do what Eliza does says

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it's fabulous to hear accent for either lead the Bina kobina who are done with twin cannon who will even

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respond to that which is evil with that which is better. And you would find that the one that hated you your enemy would become your closest friend and would become your protector. arnoud Van Dorn.

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It takes one person it takes one person and that's now your best friend. That's not someone you want to hug that's now someone that you love for the sake of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, we ask Allah to grant us expense in our test and we asked a lot of parents out to to purify our hearts and we asked Allah subhanho wa Taala to make us amongst those that benefit themselves and benefit their families and benefit their communities all for his sake alumna amin does not come along fight on Apollo 40 haha well stuff get a lot he will come with salamati come on come to life.