Ali Dawah - February 21, 2025GAZA MADE HER LEAVE ISLAM - POWERFUL REMINDER
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Jummah Kutbahaykum: Those we have buried are not actually dead. They have entered the barzakh, a parallel existence where there are people right now that are just as alive as you. Some are watching green birds that were once in bodies of martyrs soar above them, others are drowning in rivers of blood, some are dwelling in beautiful homes among family members that have been dead for decades, and others are busy being devoured by beasts with many heads.
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it starts with the basic truth those we have buried are not actually dead
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they've entered the barzakh a parallel existence where there are people right
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now that are just as alive as you I was doing that once in speaker's corner and
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one girl came to me she said I left Islam I was curious I said like what's the
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reason and she specifically mentioned Gaza this was a couple of years ago it's
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not even what's going on now so she was like I left Islam and I was like okay
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so it really amazed me like a thought came to my mind I was like wow and I
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expressed it to her I said I said sister don't you think it's amazing that you
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just imagine the people back in the day when they would have to travel certain
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distances for months or even years what is one thing that they would carry with
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them the Quran why because they did not have it on their mobile devices or their
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gadgets brothers and sisters imagine you have a app the Qurany app which not
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only shows you how much rewards you get but reminds you to read the Quran gives
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you reminders download the Qurany app now and let it testify for you on your
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time of the Quran that you read it wherever you was
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Asalaamu Alaikum wa rahmatu wa barakatu brothers and sisters and dear friends
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call it you guys inshaAllah Asalaamu Alaikum Ustah Al-Mahayyam
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Alhamdulillah good Alhamdulillah so I came inshaAllah to see Ustah Al-Omar in a specific location
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we're not going into detail of course it's classified but Alhamdulillah I got a chance to sit with
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him speak with him got to know him better Alhamdulillah and yeah Alhamdulillah got nothing but good to say
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And Alhamdulillah, Yaqeen Institute has really helped me in my da'wah as well when it comes to prophecies
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I believe it's prophecies be a great role, like me when it comes to convincing people of Islam
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So yeah, may Allah bless and preserve you, inshaAllah
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So you've got this series that is coming out, it's called The Other Side
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So we're going to watch it, we're going to react to it because there's a lot of lessons to be learned from it
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Because I found it really powerful, so are you ready to watch yourself?
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Am I viewed amongst the righteous or the wicked?
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There's this world you're in and another world that simultaneously exists that you can't see
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Allah, the angels and other elements of the unseen are watching you
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A parallel existence where there are people right now that are just as alive as you
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Some of them are watching green birds that were once in bodies of martyrs soar above them
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Some are dwelling in beautiful homes among family members that have been dead for decades
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Others are busy being devoured by beasts with many heads
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And what do we know about the people who reside in it?
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And what would knowing about that world do for us today to make sense of the world we live in right now?
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And what does it mean for us in our own individual journeys?
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So, Subhanallah, that was very powerful from the production to, you know, explanation.
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What comes to my mind is, you know, when we're looking at Gaza, I spoke to you about this yesterday as well.
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I was doing that once in the speaker's corner, and one girl came to me, and she said, I left Islam.
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I was curious, I said, like, what's the reason?
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So, she was like, I left Islam, and I was like, okay.
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So, it really amazed me, like, a thought came to my mind, and I was like, wow.
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I said, I said, sister, don't you think it's amazing that you are living in the West?
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You don't have to worry about, you know, your life being in danger, bonds dropping, et cetera.
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And yet, you have doubted Islam because of what you see.
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However, I said, the very people that you're looking at, their suffering, has led you to live Islam,
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They're the ones, if there's anyone that we can say, could, Ghani, should be saying what you're saying to them,
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Because a lot of people are, like, we, it's in our dawah table.
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It's like, like, how does this woman come and pick up the body parts of his daughter, son,
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and say, yeah, this is Adam's leg, and says, alhamdulillah, like, I look at that as a Muslim.
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I look at that as a Muslim and go, can I say those words if that was my kids?
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And please tell us this series, what's inspiring you to talk about the outside?
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Firstly, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes the descent of the Qur'an
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as being a means by which he divides the believers from the hypocrites,
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that it sends some people on a journey back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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and it sends others on a journey down a very dark path,
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The people of Qur'an also, and there are no people that can rightfully be called
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the people of Qur'an in the collective sense, like the people of Gaza today.
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The people of the Qur'an also become a means by which you can distinguish truth and falsehood,
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That's not to say that some very sincere believers have not experienced deep pain
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that they've had to come to terms with over the last year and a half,
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and have found themselves in a place of hardship and deep sorrow,
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to where there was a waswasa, there was a whisper from the shaytan inside of them.
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But what I'm talking about is the fact that because of Gaza,
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you have people that have embraced Islam at a rate like we have never seen before,
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and you have some people who still would find their way away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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One of the things, subhanAllah, that you mentioned, which is very important here,
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the people of Gaza are not questioning their faith.
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So who are you to question faith on their behalf?
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The people that are the core subject of this, that are experiencing this,
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In fact, they are having extreme connection to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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They are renewed in their faith, their resilience.
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That doesn't mean they are not devastated at times.
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They cry over the circumstances that have befallen them.
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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is putting them through an unnecessary trial
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They understand that they are here for a purpose.
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If you're born and raised in Gaza, you know from the very beginning
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and that you occupy a very special purpose in this world.
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these people are not limited by what's called the open-air prison of Gaza
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that is broader than the heavens and the earth.
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They are not intimidated by their human oppressor
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because they're already connected to the lord of the oppressor and the oppressed.
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They already are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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That whoever turns away from my remembrance will have a constricting life.
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because they can't come to terms with devastation
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of the people of Gaza or the refugees of the world.
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People that leave Islam because they didn't marry the person they wanted to marry
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they still find a way away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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People that can't find happiness because they don't have purpose.
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that things are known by their opposites as well.
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That the more you remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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the more shiraah there is, the more expanse there is.
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and they are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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So they feel expanse even though they're in this tight circumstance.
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let's not just talk about the people and the genocide.
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let's not call them prisoners, a topic for another day.
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You watch the hostages, the Palestinian hostages
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that come out after having been in captivity for 30 years
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And they still say, alhamdulillah, as soon as they come out
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and they say, despite everything we've been subjected to,
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So faith is not something that can be explained easily
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to someone who's never touched it or been touched by it.
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because they don't understand how these people still have purpose.
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And on top of that, and this is what you mentioned about us,
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faith is also something that we pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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consider us amongst His devout servants and believers
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and grant us a high state of iman and certainty and yaqeen
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so we can be like the people of Ghazza in this regard.
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We've read about these stories and episodes from the Seerah.
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But to see it exemplified so clearly in the people of Ghazza
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has made the story of Hamza radiallahu anhu so much more real.
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It has made the story of Mus'ab radiallahu anhu so real.
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Wa ala dahduh, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless him.
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or not every single person, but I mean subhanAllah,
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He says, my family went to Jannah and I went to Doha.
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That's how he explains the way that subhanAllah that this happens.
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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has destined victory for the people of Ghazza
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and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has destined paradise for all of us.
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And the other side was not meant in any way to serve as a sedative,
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as a means of making us complacent with the situation of Ghazza
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and saying, oh, it's okay, Allah has taken care of them in the hereafter.
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And this is something subhanahu wa ta'ala I talked about in the series,
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that when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talked about the shuhada of Uhud,
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when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised them to him
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and gave them what he gave them after their shahadah,
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they asked to come back and speak to their families
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But they did not want the believers to lose heart.
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They wanted them to keep at it, to say, we're okay, so keep at it.
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You have to live with purpose and die with purpose as well.
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I started writing this series actually in 2023.
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Subhanallah, October 2024 was a very difficult month.
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And October 2023, obviously, everything in between.
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So I literally was filming this a year of genocide.
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And I was writing it from the genocide onwards.
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is that we think about divine justice as a future concept.
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are already receiving their reward from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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It's about the fact that this exists right now.
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Because that's the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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we should live like we're going to die tomorrow.