Ali Dawah - December 25, 2020WHY MO SALAH CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS AS A MUSLIM
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Summary
Brother Moussala shared a picture of his wife wearing a hijab with her daughter, who is a hijabi sister. Some have questioned why a Muslim woman would wear a hijab in public and others have questioned if it was meant to symbolise something other than Christmas. In this podcast, we discuss the implications of this and what we can do about it.
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So Rabbi Moussala, as you can see on the screen, shared something with his wife.
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His wife is a hijabi sister and obviously she's going to cover herself with a hoodie, but it's more Christmas.
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I used to celebrate Christmas. I used to wrap gifts, presents, Christmas, turkey, dinner.
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A lot of you guys that don't understand the severity and the consequences, to you it's like,
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Rabbi Ali, what's the hell? Come on, for God's sake.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, brothers and sisters and dear friends, welcome back inshaAllah.
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So I've been getting a lot of messages regarding Brother Moussala and the pictures that he shared.
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I think he did, he shared one last year as well and again today and this year as well.
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So now we want to come at this from a different angle.
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I was very double-minded, shall I do this video or not?
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But I thought generally, let's just firstly talk about the rights of another believer, number one.
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Number two, let's just talk about, in general, about Christmas, yeah?
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Now, many videos have been done over and over again and this is something where a lot of people think,
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you know what, nah, what's the big deal? Let's just get into it, inshaAllah, yeah?
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So Brother Moussala, as you can see on the screen, shared something with his wife.
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His wife is a hijabi sister and obviously she's covering herself with a hoodie, but it's more Christmassy.
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Now, what we're going to do is we're going to be talking about, in general, firstly, for us to assume the best in a Muslim.
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It's very important when these things come up, a lot of people jump on the bandwagon and be like,
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oh yeah, I'm going to attack him, you know, he's a kafir, he's like this, he's like that, and send heat.
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That's not the right attitude because at the end of the day, brothers and sisters,
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do I believe that Moussala, knowing what it's symbolising, what he's doing,
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Does he think to himself, you know what, I know, let me use this symbol that is rooted in the pagan traditions,
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or Christmas as well, which we believe is paganism as well.
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They believe in that Jesus' birth and they believe Jesus to be the son of God or God incarnated.
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Sending hate is not going to solve anything, but it's good to educate, yeah?
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Maybe when you're giving Nasiya, do it in a nice and good manner.
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So when you're addressing him, just say, brother Moussala, maybe give us some information,
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maybe he doesn't know, you know, there is actually biblical verses, yeah, in the book of Jeremiah,
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it actually talks about Christmas, it's very profound, you know, even some Christians deem it to be some kind of pagan ritual.
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So if we go to the book of Jeremiah, just Jeremiah, so we can just understand.
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Hear you the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, a house of Israel.
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Thou saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the sign of heaven.
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The work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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They fasten it with nails and with hammers, then that it move not.
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They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not.
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Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil.
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This is very interesting, because at the end of this verse, it's like they saw maybe the tree as some kind of a,
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something that brings, like, in the book of Jeremiah, it clearly says,
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For they cannot do evil, neither also is it that they can do good.
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So what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tell us in the Qur'an about pagans?
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You know, they're just something that's inanimate objects.
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And some Christians today even acknowledge that it comes from paganism.
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So, but now let's understand and let's advise people in general.
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If he's watching this stuff, generally, Baba, I don't believe you did this on purpose, that you think that.
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But it's very profound, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Surah Maryam, verse 19,
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By which the heavens are about to burst, the earth splits apart, and the mountains to crumble with pieces,
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in protest of attributing children to the most compassionate.
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Brothers and sisters, let's understand something, yeah?
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Now, a lot of you guys, so for example, I did a video on TikTok,
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where I went to a Arab, a Muslim shop, if I'm not mistaken, there was a Christmas tree, Father Christmas was there, yeah?
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When you come to a Arab, Muslim shop, and you see my man rolling here,
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Now, what we need to understand is that these things gradually evolve.
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Now, I as a non-Muslim, back in Jahli, I used to celebrate Christmas.
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I used to wrap gifts, presents, Christmas, turkey, dinner, etc.
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You know, in Jahli, I used to eat pork, like, you know, I used to celebrate Christmas.
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Yeah, yeah, I won't get into much details, but the thing is, I used to celebrate Christmas with them.
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Every single year, we used to get gifts and everything.
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Now, the thing is, as I started studying the religion, then I understood the severity of that.
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Now, a lot of you guys that don't understand the severity and the consequences,
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to you, it's like, Brother Ali, what's the hell? Come on, for God's sake.
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Brothers and sisters, if we understood what a shirk is,
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and most of the time, this happens because we are ignorant to it.
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Now, I don't want you guys to see this as some kind of me having a go at you.
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There's nothing wrong with knowing in the context of, like, you should educate yourself.
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I'm not having a go at you, but it's important for you to learn.
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Allah is saying, the mountains, Allah is saying in the Qur'an, the heavens are about to burst.
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The mountains, the earth is about to split apart.
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The statement that they uttered, that Isa alayhi salam.
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And if I'm not mistaken, one of the brothers told us that the star that they have on the tree that they put is a star of Bethlehem.
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And this is where they follow that star to find Jesus, which they deem to be the Son of God or part of the Trinity.
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And to those non-Muslims that are watching this and trying to understand where we're coming from,
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look, you have every right to celebrate Christmas.
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But what we're trying to say, and even in the Islamic land, even if it was run by the Islamic rulership,
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Christians can celebrate and they can have their own churches.
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We're not here to say, you're not allowed to celebrate, you offended me.
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But what is more confusing, and I feel sorry for reverts,
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is because those who celebrate Christmas, when they see Muslims doing it,
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they're going to be saying to their reverts, family members who say, I can't celebrate.
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Hold on a second, there's Muslims, like Mossala, he's a Muslim, he's celebrating it.
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You put Reavers in a situation where the family's thinking, are you trying to be awkward?
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So let's understand that you guys can celebrate, but to us, the severity is so big.
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Just imagine, for example, there was a symbol, there was a specific tree,
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or whatever it may be, there was some kind of connections to, let's suppose,
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A member of your family died with someone cutting them into pieces.
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And from that moment onwards, we were celebrating using that specific knife,
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and we used to hang the knife right on top of the tree, or something along those lines.
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Now, shirk, associating partners to God, is one million, trillion, a billion times worse than that.
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but that does not mean that what's happening is not wrong.
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Just because you can't grasp something because of cultural barriers or differences,
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or religious, whatever it may be, doesn't mean it's not wrong.
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Associating partners to Allah, Allah is the one who feeds you.
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Allah is the one who's given you everything that you have, all the blessings that you have.
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So much so, there is a hadith of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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who said, a man will come on the day of judgment, a righteous man.
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And he will say, Allah will say to him, enter my paradise.
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He will say, oh Allah, I want to enter with my good deeds.
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And he'll bring the mizan, the weighing of the deeds that day.
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And Allah will say, okay, let's get all your good deeds, we'll put it on one side,
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and let's get your eye, the blessing of your eye, and put it on the other.
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The eye will outweigh all the good deeds this man did for a hundred years, that he did.
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Now the man will say, oh Allah, please, I want to enter, enter me into paradise with your mercy,
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Because if it's based on your justice, I'm indebted to you.
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The moment I'm born to whatever I do, I can never pay you back.
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So the man, Allah says, okay, enter my paradise.
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The point here is, firstly, we enter paradise by the mercy of Allah, not by our good deeds.
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This doesn't mean you don't do your good deeds.
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You do your good deeds because of who Allah is.
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But the point is this, brothers and sisters, for us to understand the severity.
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Wallahi, brothers and sisters, how ungrateful it is.
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Imagine if you did something that hurt your mom's feelings.
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Imagine you did something that your mom did not like.
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Imagine if your mom said to you, you know, I've looked after you all this time.
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Or your dad said, I've done this, I've worked hard to bring you up, and I don't want you to have this in the house.
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You would say, you know what, at least out of appreciation and love to him and gratitude, my dad doesn't like it, let me not do it.
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What about the one who created the heavens and the earth?
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Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of the night and day, there are signs for those who believe or who have wisdom, who are thinking.
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Brothers and sisters, you look around you, you see everything, you see the stars and everything.
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And Allah has created me and you, he's given us everything.
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Wallahi, when I say this, I'm getting emotional.
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Because the Quran says, Wallahi, it's the pinnacle of ingratitude.
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You might think to yourself, oh, how dramatic, Brother Ali.
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He gives you everything and something that's connecting to shirk.
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Something that is, you might say, okay, it's a festival.
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Because it's connected to there, Wallahi, don't do it.
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Anything that is connected to some kind of indirect way of ingratitude to my mom and dad, I will not do it.
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Let alone the one who's created the heavens and the earth.
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Let alone the one who provides for me and looks after me.
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Let alone the one and I'm ungrateful and I sin.
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And for you guys who are doing it, you might not know.
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Brothers and sisters, when it comes to these issues, you need to understand.
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The people, the pagan Arabs who committed shirk.
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They didn't wake up one day and say, hey, I know, let's start worshiping Allah and Al-Uzza.
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But these people, these individuals, these statues that they had, idols, these were righteous individuals who used to feed pilgrims.
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When they died, shaytan came to them and said, look, why don't you build some kind of like a, in their memory.
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The future generation and the next generation turned back into shirk slowly.
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Do you think Jesus, when he came, people took him as God?
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The council of Nazareth in 325 and generation after generation did what?
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Deified him further and deified him further and deified him further.
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Now, Moussa, his daughter, may Allah bless her and make her a righteous child, a righteous daughter, and all of our children as well.
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Like I said, and all of us, if you see her father doing this and the children look after them, do you not think she's going to end up carrying, celebrating Christmas?
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Do you not think the children is going to come to a point where they're going to say, let's look into this, you know, maybe, and end up becoming Christians or whatever it may be?
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Brothers and sisters, this is where things lay down.
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You might be good, and this is the reason why I have this book here.
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He doesn't come to us directly and say, hey, man, you know, why don't you just start committing shirk?
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Because Iblis will come and say, oh, what's the harm?
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You have one life, and you either pass it or you fail it.
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Please, brothers and sisters, and I'm asking you guys to please be gentle with people.
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I hope I don't want to long this video anymore, inshallah.
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Do give me a comment section in the section below, inshallah.
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep brother Mawsal our firm, and all of us, inshallah.
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us, inshallah.
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And make us among those who are grateful to our Lord and serve His religion.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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As-salamu alaykum wa hamatullahi wa ta'ala barakatuh.