WEBVTT 00:00.503 --> 00:07.964 [SPEAKER_00]: to share with you was something I was studying recently, a couple of months ago, we were in my team and I were studying Surat al-Middethir. 00:09.325 --> 00:10.325 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's towards the end. 00:10.865 --> 00:12.965 [SPEAKER_00]: On, it's in the twenty-nineth Joseph of the Quran. 00:13.765 --> 00:19.407 [SPEAKER_00]: And just a couple of quick things about the Surat that you should know before we discuss the subject I wanted to talk to you about. 00:19.987 --> 00:25.488 [SPEAKER_00]: It's arguably one of the few early, early Surat's given to the Prophet. 00:25.588 --> 00:26.268 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is 00:27.428 --> 00:30.870 [SPEAKER_00]: the very beginning of Islam, very, very beginning of Islam. 00:31.350 --> 00:37.913 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is an important observation, not just because it's interesting information, because it has a lot of implications. 00:38.714 --> 00:46.958 [SPEAKER_00]: What that means is, when you first meet someone, the first impression can be a very powerful impression, and the way you think about them is shaped by your introduction. 00:48.118 --> 00:54.361 [SPEAKER_00]: This is important in books, for example, the Fatihah in Dukurhan sets the stage for the rest of Dukurhan. 00:54.561 --> 00:55.282 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the introduction. 00:56.182 --> 01:00.965 [SPEAKER_00]: How was Islam being introduced to the people of Makkah? 01:01.326 --> 01:09.271 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, even how was Islam being introduced to the Prophet himself, Salallahu alaihi wa-sallam, it was being introduced through the earliest suras. 01:10.172 --> 01:15.336 [SPEAKER_00]: So one way to think about the earliest suras is that they all have the seeds 01:16.156 --> 01:21.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the revelation continues, each of those seeds grow into trees and forests on their own. 01:21.803 --> 01:22.624 [SPEAKER_00]: And they expand. 01:23.004 --> 01:26.909 [SPEAKER_00]: So the early teachings, you'll notice they early, soon as they're very short. 01:27.570 --> 01:32.616 [SPEAKER_00]: And the ayat are not very long, but those short ayat have very powerful messages in them. 01:33.016 --> 01:35.879 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Allah expands on those messages later on in the Quran. 01:36.380 --> 01:36.560 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 01:36.980 --> 01:38.922 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not just that they're easy to memorize. 01:39.622 --> 01:43.225 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're short, early down with solas, but they're actually very significant solas. 01:43.545 --> 01:47.607 [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost as if they are the root of the entire religion, right? 01:47.768 --> 01:50.569 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of those solas, surat al-Muddathir. 01:50.990 --> 01:54.132 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the earliest early solas given to the Prophet, Salallahu al-Aliwisana. 01:54.152 --> 01:54.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? 01:55.032 --> 01:55.152 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, 01:56.633 --> 02:01.117 [SPEAKER_00]: There's lots of unique parts of this Surah, and each one of them can become a long discussion. 02:01.157 --> 02:06.561 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I recently in Europe, I did a twenty-hour lecture series just on this Surah. 02:06.961 --> 02:08.022 [SPEAKER_00]: But in Chile, it's been recorded. 02:08.062 --> 02:10.504 [SPEAKER_00]: It'll be online eventually when it's done editing. 02:10.824 --> 02:18.810 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to share one piece of a new lesson that I learned for myself that I had never paid attention to that much that came also from this Surah. 02:19.751 --> 02:21.472 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ early in his Dawa, he did not have an amnesia. 02:26.060 --> 02:27.561 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just the mission is just starting. 02:27.741 --> 02:30.382 [SPEAKER_00]: People are just gonna start getting introduced to this message. 02:30.943 --> 02:34.264 [SPEAKER_00]: And we know that he has enemies later on, right? 02:34.364 --> 02:35.965 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Abu Jahil is gonna be an enemy. 02:36.365 --> 02:38.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Lahab is gonna be an enemy, right? 02:38.106 --> 02:41.568 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave it, even we'll leave other people are gonna be his enemies later on. 02:42.348 --> 02:43.609 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is very, very early. 02:44.469 --> 02:55.315 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting is that Allah introduced the prophets, Allah, Allah, Allah, He'll sell them to the enemies years before they became obvious as an enemy. 02:56.550 --> 03:03.776 [SPEAKER_00]: So one of the earliest things Allah did for his messenger, sallallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu aallahu. 03:06.168 --> 03:06.368 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 03:06.989 --> 03:12.214 [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, one of the things we learned in the Sira, especially when he was in Makkah. 03:12.234 --> 03:29.412 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah Almighty said him, is when the Quran spread and it became a powerful message that even the richest people and the most powerful people in Makkah, they had to have strategy meetings to discuss how do they fix the problem of Islam? 03:30.452 --> 03:31.853 [SPEAKER_00]: This Quran thing is spreading. 03:32.334 --> 03:33.375 [SPEAKER_00]: It's becoming a problem. 03:33.675 --> 03:35.176 [SPEAKER_00]: We see a lot of young people joining. 03:35.556 --> 03:36.918 [SPEAKER_00]: We see some slaves joining. 03:37.238 --> 03:39.260 [SPEAKER_00]: We see even some influencers joining. 03:39.920 --> 03:41.702 [SPEAKER_00]: This thing is going to become a serious problem. 03:41.722 --> 03:44.684 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't stop it right now, we have to discuss this. 03:44.704 --> 03:54.452 [SPEAKER_00]: So they would have these board meetings to discuss the problem strategy meetings, you know, at the Pentagon to discuss, you know, this new threat to homeland security. 03:55.253 --> 03:56.354 [SPEAKER_00]: in Makkah, right? 03:56.834 --> 04:01.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the thing is, early on, you might know that people call the Prophet insane, some of the Lahore and you saw him. 04:01.478 --> 04:05.941 [SPEAKER_00]: You heard this before, they called him insane, or they called him a liar, or they called him a poet. 04:06.761 --> 04:12.345 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the thing is, if somebody's standing on the side of the street, making poetry, you think the White House is going to have a meeting about it? 04:13.666 --> 04:21.212 [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody's crazy, a homeless guy was crazy guy talking in the mall, right, or standing at a highway, yelling at everybody in the highways, crazy, 04:22.109 --> 04:26.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think the military is going to get involved and say we need to discuss a strategic response? 04:26.791 --> 04:26.992 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 04:27.752 --> 04:35.556 [SPEAKER_00]: If he's actually crazy, like you say, if he's actually a poet, if he's actually a liar, then you have nothing to worry about. 04:35.836 --> 04:36.877 [SPEAKER_00]: There's lots of crazy people. 04:37.197 --> 04:38.037 [SPEAKER_00]: There's lots of poets. 04:38.438 --> 04:39.358 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not the only poet. 04:39.378 --> 04:40.299 [SPEAKER_00]: There's hundreds of poets. 04:41.179 --> 04:42.440 [SPEAKER_00]: And they make poetry all the time. 04:43.120 --> 04:43.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello? 04:43.720 --> 04:44.241 [SPEAKER_00]: No problem. 04:45.315 --> 04:52.681 [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that they had to hold meetings and discuss and deliberate and figure out what to do with this, what does that prove? 04:52.821 --> 05:00.808 [SPEAKER_00]: It proves they also knew that this is not poetry, this is not magic, this is something else, this is something else. 05:01.508 --> 05:05.872 [SPEAKER_00]: And the thing with magic, one of the things about magic, because they called them a magician too, right? 05:07.013 --> 05:11.377 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing with magic is if you have like an app can and you turn it into a dollar. 05:12.492 --> 05:24.837 [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody's like, whoa, if that was actually true, then that magician would buy a bunch of napkins, and he wouldn't be spending time showing you one napkin turning into one dollar. 05:25.457 --> 05:27.318 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd be minting money at home from Walmart. 05:30.979 --> 05:35.601 [SPEAKER_00]: If there was truth to this, then he would be wasting his time showing it to you. 05:36.321 --> 05:39.262 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd be the wealthiest person on the planet, get me more napkins. 05:39.662 --> 05:40.903 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he would be doing at home. 05:42.006 --> 05:42.566 [SPEAKER_00]: you understand. 05:42.867 --> 05:46.249 [SPEAKER_00]: So magic is just an illusion, and the magician knows that. 05:46.870 --> 05:52.914 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a form ofhood, I, in fact, set an Arabic, one of the meanings of the word set is actually deception. 05:53.114 --> 05:53.655 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a trick. 05:54.676 --> 05:55.216 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all it is. 05:55.997 --> 05:58.038 [SPEAKER_00]: But the thing with the trick is it's temporary, right? 05:58.699 --> 05:59.379 [SPEAKER_00]: It's temporary. 05:59.399 --> 06:00.640 [SPEAKER_00]: It's no reality to it. 06:00.660 --> 06:02.021 [SPEAKER_00]: It comes and it goes away. 06:03.462 --> 06:06.905 [SPEAKER_00]: If this was magic, just like any other trick, it would just go away. 06:08.132 --> 06:08.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:08.993 --> 06:10.373 [SPEAKER_00]: Qur'an doesn't seem to be going away. 06:11.154 --> 06:13.155 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ doesn't seem to be going away. 06:13.235 --> 06:15.056 [SPEAKER_00]: The message of Islam doesn't seem to be going away. 06:15.336 --> 06:16.737 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is a serious problem. 06:17.477 --> 06:18.498 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is on their side. 06:19.599 --> 06:27.123 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah prepared the messenger of Allah ﷺ for three different kinds of enemies in Makkah. 06:28.304 --> 06:30.025 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna talk about three different kinds of enemies. 06:30.085 --> 06:32.466 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna talk about the third one in the most detail. 06:33.367 --> 06:34.908 [SPEAKER_00]: Now what's amazing in the Qur'an 06:36.002 --> 06:38.564 [SPEAKER_00]: is that the first kind of enemy Allah introduced him to. 06:39.244 --> 06:46.489 [SPEAKER_00]: It's part of the first surah that was revealed, even though that part was revealed later, everybody knows the first revelation is iqara Bismillah, biqallidi halaq. 06:46.709 --> 06:46.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:47.750 --> 06:50.612 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that surah you find, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. 07:06.499 --> 07:12.546 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's one guy is not just one guy, it's one kind of enemy, that's the Abujahel category. 07:12.566 --> 07:18.653 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah doesn't just talk about a person, by talking about that person, he's talking about an entire category. 07:19.253 --> 07:23.658 [SPEAKER_00]: So when he talks about Firaon, he's not just talking about Firaon, every century will have a Firaon. 07:24.703 --> 07:26.084 [SPEAKER_00]: Every society can have a fit on. 07:26.104 --> 07:31.706 [SPEAKER_00]: When he's talking about Karoun, he's not just talking about a guy who died thousands of years ago, there's lots of Karouns in the world. 07:32.166 --> 07:32.706 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? 07:33.147 --> 07:36.408 [SPEAKER_00]: So the same way when Allah talks about Abu Jahan, he's not just talking about Abu Jahan. 07:36.988 --> 07:38.829 [SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be lots of Abu Jahan in the world. 07:39.029 --> 07:40.290 [SPEAKER_00]: That's one kind of enemy. 07:41.030 --> 07:45.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Another earth you might be familiar with is Tabb-Batiyada Abbi, Lahabin, what's up? 07:46.891 --> 07:53.093 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the isuras, because Rasul al-Assalam, called people to invite them to the message of Islam. 07:53.113 --> 07:55.694 [SPEAKER_00]: And they all came and they thought that this is some important announcement. 07:55.974 --> 08:02.236 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he started giving them Dawa, Abulahab screamed out his own uncle, screamed out, that Benlek Ali had a Jamaatana. 08:02.976 --> 08:04.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Curse you, this is why you brought us here. 08:04.817 --> 08:07.018 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah responded, the curse isn't on Rasul al-Assalam. 08:07.238 --> 08:07.898 [SPEAKER_00]: It's on your hands. 08:08.158 --> 08:10.439 [SPEAKER_00]: But yet, Abilahab in, what's up? 08:10.819 --> 08:13.199 [SPEAKER_00]: So the second category, first category, Abul Jahan. 08:13.620 --> 08:14.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Second category? 08:15.372 --> 08:17.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Abulaham is not just a person, it's a category. 08:18.333 --> 08:21.113 [SPEAKER_00]: And the third category is insultal modethin. 08:21.813 --> 08:25.854 [SPEAKER_00]: And this begins with Dharni, woman Khalaktu wa Heda, I'll talk to you about that a little bit. 08:26.194 --> 08:29.915 [SPEAKER_00]: This is referring to arguably Walid Ibn Murira, Walid. 08:30.255 --> 08:31.035 [SPEAKER_00]: For short, Walid. 08:31.715 --> 08:35.316 [SPEAKER_00]: So with three people, you have to remind me what three people. 08:35.956 --> 08:36.276 [SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead. 08:36.716 --> 08:41.217 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Abulaham number two, Abulaham number three, Walid. 08:41.257 --> 08:44.458 [SPEAKER_00]: There are completely different, completely different enemies. 08:45.434 --> 08:49.997 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, in the military and in sports, there are some things in common. 08:50.358 --> 08:51.398 [SPEAKER_00]: You study your enemy. 08:52.379 --> 08:58.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Like MMA fighters, before they, when they're prep for a match, they say, is this guy, is he got a good ground game? 08:58.904 --> 09:00.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is he, is he a South paw? 09:00.865 --> 09:02.727 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he, does he prefer his left side? 09:03.047 --> 09:05.469 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he go towards, does he like to stay in the middle of the ring? 09:05.709 --> 09:06.689 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he have better cardio? 09:06.990 --> 09:10.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on your opponent, you're training for those six, eight weeks. 09:11.733 --> 09:37.435 [SPEAKER_00]: is going to be completely different for a different opponent that has a different strong suit you understand so in football in soccer in basketball before they have a game they watch plays of the opponent team to understand their strategy right that's an important part and the same thing with the military if the military is going to engage with an enemy in one territory they're going to study their military strategies their military history right 09:37.975 --> 09:41.896 [SPEAKER_00]: The same way Rasulullah Salam is being prepared for three kinds of enemies. 09:41.977 --> 09:44.577 [SPEAKER_00]: And the first one, like I said, Abu Jahad, let's talk about him a little bit. 09:45.558 --> 09:47.318 [SPEAKER_00]: To make it simple, because two of them are simple. 09:47.499 --> 09:48.579 [SPEAKER_00]: The third one is complicated. 09:48.859 --> 09:50.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jahad is simple, Abu Lahab is simple. 09:51.600 --> 09:52.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's complicated? 09:52.921 --> 09:54.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Wally this complicated. 09:54.381 --> 09:56.502 [SPEAKER_00]: And Sultan Maud Dathir is about the complicated enemy. 09:56.862 --> 09:59.423 [SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about why Abu Jahal and Abu Lahab are simple. 09:59.803 --> 10:02.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jahal is what you can call the principle dynamic. 10:02.783 --> 10:04.203 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the honorable enemy. 10:04.444 --> 10:07.664 [SPEAKER_00]: He believes he's fighting Islam because he's trying to save his nation. 10:08.004 --> 10:08.944 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a nationalist. 10:09.164 --> 10:10.005 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a patriot. 10:10.285 --> 10:11.365 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves Makkah. 10:11.645 --> 10:12.785 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves the tradition. 10:13.125 --> 10:16.106 [SPEAKER_00]: This man Muhammad is challenging the way we do things. 10:16.446 --> 10:18.486 [SPEAKER_00]: We already we are already number one. 10:18.726 --> 10:19.627 [SPEAKER_00]: We love our country. 10:19.667 --> 10:20.527 [SPEAKER_00]: We love our tribe. 10:20.547 --> 10:21.687 [SPEAKER_00]: We love the way we do things. 10:21.987 --> 10:24.308 [SPEAKER_00]: And this guy thinks he can change the way we do things. 10:24.648 --> 10:25.788 [SPEAKER_00]: He is a threat to our nation. 10:25.868 --> 10:26.448 [SPEAKER_00]: If you love 10:26.908 --> 10:27.188 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here. 10:27.228 --> 10:31.150 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Makka, you're with me, right? 10:31.330 --> 10:32.631 [SPEAKER_00]: And he actually believes it. 10:32.911 --> 10:34.032 [SPEAKER_00]: He actually believes it. 10:34.852 --> 10:40.155 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's got make Makka great against it like posters and he's got like, you know, 10:41.563 --> 10:48.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And he believes that Islam and the prophesied Islam is actually a threat to the country. 10:48.446 --> 10:50.107 [SPEAKER_00]: He actually believes it, okay? 10:50.687 --> 10:58.311 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he is so principled, he's so principled as an enemy that the Qur'an when it talked about him said, he's so good. 10:59.192 --> 11:03.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if he was on the side of Islam, he wouldn't have been the most powerful Muslim. 11:08.996 --> 11:12.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you observed if he had been committed to guidance? 11:12.757 --> 11:15.438 [SPEAKER_00]: If he was the one telling people to have dhokwa? 11:15.919 --> 11:17.739 [SPEAKER_00]: What kind of an amazing person he would have been? 11:18.379 --> 11:20.120 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he's his other name is Amra. 11:20.760 --> 11:22.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jaha's other name is Amra, his real name. 11:23.401 --> 11:26.563 [SPEAKER_00]: And Rasul al-Assalam, made dua for one of the two, Omar or Amr. 11:28.263 --> 11:30.464 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah answered with, Omar bin al-Khataam al-Dilah wa'ana. 11:30.504 --> 11:31.344 [SPEAKER_00]: What does that tell you? 11:31.564 --> 11:37.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Even Rasulullah, sallallahu al-Salam, saw the potential in Abu Jaha'il, which was the same potential as 11:39.020 --> 11:39.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Omar bin al-Hattab. 11:39.740 --> 11:44.162 [SPEAKER_00]: And Omar bin al-Hattab, you know, on the other side, he is the principles, right? 11:44.363 --> 11:45.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Principle over everything else. 11:45.783 --> 11:50.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he, luckily, Omar bin al-Hattab follows the correct, the guided principles. 11:51.066 --> 11:55.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jaha'an is equally committed to principles, what on the wrong side, right? 11:55.308 --> 11:57.009 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's the honorable enemy. 11:57.249 --> 12:03.372 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the kind of enemy if you fight him on the battlefield and you have, you know, in the, in the, in the, in the night, the armies would rest. 12:03.492 --> 12:03.672 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 12:03.952 --> 12:06.213 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not gonna attack you at night because it's not honorable. 12:07.296 --> 12:11.302 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the kind of enemy he finds out, even though you're fighting your enemy, you find out your child died. 12:12.344 --> 12:17.573 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll say, well, I'll fight you in the morning, but in the evening, I'll send you a note condolences, sorry I heard about your baby. 12:18.394 --> 12:19.796 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll send you the honor among enemies. 12:20.759 --> 12:22.821 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a noble enemy, that's Abu Jahel. 12:23.281 --> 12:27.044 [SPEAKER_00]: And those enemies have potential of being the most noble Muslims. 12:27.484 --> 12:30.907 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's something even though Qur'an mentions about the likes of Abu Jahel. 12:30.927 --> 12:44.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Because some of them will remain Abu Jahel, some of them will become Umar-e-Bir-e-L-Hatawr-e-L-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-Hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e-hatawr-e 12:47.442 --> 13:01.533 [SPEAKER_00]: He is, this is a person who is foul mouth corrupt, involved in a scandal where they were accused of collecting donations for the repair of the Kaba and kept the money for themselves. 13:02.793 --> 13:15.816 [SPEAKER_00]: also loves money, loves showing off the money, loves showing off how fashionable he is, how better his clothes are, loves to be the power couple, the center of attention, extremely arrogant. 13:15.896 --> 13:24.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can talk to him because if they talk, if they try to talk to him, he's going to curse them out with the worst language, so they're good-looking people with the ugliest mouth that's Abulahab and his wife, Hind. 13:26.294 --> 13:26.474 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 13:26.775 --> 13:27.816 [SPEAKER_00]: They were the power couple. 13:27.896 --> 13:29.098 [SPEAKER_00]: They were the celebrity couple. 13:29.138 --> 13:31.541 [SPEAKER_00]: They were good-looking people also by the reports. 13:32.061 --> 13:36.186 [SPEAKER_00]: They were the celebrity power couple that everybody was scared of because they had a foul mouth. 13:36.587 --> 13:38.509 [SPEAKER_00]: And they had actually even stolen donation money. 13:38.910 --> 13:42.694 [SPEAKER_00]: So they were considered a wretched people that people are actually scared of. 13:43.490 --> 13:47.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is hard to imagine for you guys in the age of TikTok and Instagram. 13:47.973 --> 13:58.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Famous celebrities that are famous for their beauty or status or whatever else, but are actually really vile people to work for or vile people to be around everybody scared about them unimaginable. 14:00.392 --> 14:02.053 [SPEAKER_00]: but this is the Abulahab category. 14:02.893 --> 14:08.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Ugly on the inside, even if they're good-looking on the outside, ugly on the inside and ugly in their character. 14:08.975 --> 14:13.056 [SPEAKER_00]: With Abulahab, Abulahab, at least he has some kind of principles. 14:13.577 --> 14:16.658 [SPEAKER_00]: The Abulahab category has no principles. 14:16.778 --> 14:28.382 [SPEAKER_00]: So even if his own nephew who lives next door, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa-salam, has a child who died, he will start singing and dancing and celebrating that the baby died. 14:29.778 --> 14:32.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Bata Ram Muhammad Muhammad's name will not carry on. 14:33.260 --> 14:37.543 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah says, in Nasha'ani Aqahul, that's a response to Abu Lahab. 14:37.943 --> 14:40.444 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how disgusting kind of an enemy he is. 14:41.085 --> 14:47.088 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah is telling us, in throughout the ages, for believers, there's going to be Abu Jahil kinds of enemies. 14:48.329 --> 14:51.391 [SPEAKER_00]: There's also going to be Abu Lahab kind of enemies. 14:51.591 --> 14:53.672 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be vile and filthy through and through. 14:54.412 --> 14:55.053 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be there. 14:55.153 --> 14:56.234 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to be wealthy too. 14:56.254 --> 14:58.355 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to be influential also. 14:59.627 --> 15:00.948 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be wealthy and influential. 15:00.968 --> 15:03.330 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be known for their something superficial. 15:03.370 --> 15:06.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Lahab was called Abu Lahab because he was a redhead and he was a good-looking guy. 15:07.854 --> 15:09.435 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though redheads are weird-looking nowadays. 15:09.475 --> 15:11.116 [SPEAKER_00]: But that was the thing back then. 15:13.679 --> 15:14.179 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it was. 15:14.259 --> 15:19.984 [SPEAKER_00]: But then we get to the interesting category, category number three, the complicated enemy. 15:20.564 --> 15:21.145 [SPEAKER_00]: What was his name? 15:22.226 --> 15:23.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Waleed Ibn Muril. 15:23.046 --> 15:25.108 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's any boys here in Ibn Muril, do apologies. 15:25.969 --> 15:26.429 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not you. 15:26.749 --> 15:27.770 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Waleed Ibn Muril. 15:29.475 --> 15:31.357 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's tell you a little bit about what he did to him. 15:32.497 --> 15:33.378 [SPEAKER_00]: These are people. 15:33.418 --> 15:37.421 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, darni wa man khalak tu wa khayda, leave him to let me deal with him. 15:38.002 --> 15:39.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah didn't say that wa rabulaham. 15:40.404 --> 15:41.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah didn't say that wa rabulaham. 15:41.425 --> 15:43.506 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah didn't say that wa rabulaham. 15:43.526 --> 15:49.131 [SPEAKER_00]: But he said, darni wa man khalak tu wa khayda, let me alone deal with the one I created. 15:50.112 --> 15:51.152 [SPEAKER_00]: Wahid means a few things. 15:51.533 --> 15:54.015 [SPEAKER_00]: Wahid means I'm the only one who made him. 15:54.515 --> 15:55.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah himself created him. 15:56.377 --> 15:57.498 [SPEAKER_00]: As if he forgot who made him. 15:58.416 --> 16:00.438 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Allah telling us this is a very arrogant person. 16:01.038 --> 16:02.400 [SPEAKER_00]: He forgot that Allah is the one who made him. 16:02.920 --> 16:06.944 [SPEAKER_00]: What he done also means he was born in a family where he was the only child. 16:07.745 --> 16:13.089 [SPEAKER_00]: Or he was considered so special that his parents made the other siblings feel like he is the only child. 16:13.830 --> 16:14.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't raise your hand. 16:17.204 --> 16:22.733 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's the favorite in the family, or is the only one in this case he was the only child, Wahida. 16:23.293 --> 16:28.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he has only child syndrome, he's a special one, he's the center of attention, and he's born in a very wealthy family. 16:29.371 --> 16:33.114 [SPEAKER_00]: What he then also hears suggests he was created in a way that is unique. 16:33.734 --> 16:43.642 [SPEAKER_00]: What that means is, just like Allah made us of different physical abilities, different heights, different weights, different bone density, right? 16:44.563 --> 16:47.145 [SPEAKER_00]: The same way Allah made us of different mental capacity. 16:47.565 --> 16:51.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are amazing at mathematics, some people are allergic to numbers. 16:52.870 --> 16:56.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are incredible at medicine, some people are incredible artists. 16:57.704 --> 17:04.331 [SPEAKER_00]: And you see some people that just their knowledge of history is just the way they can learn history is unreal, but they can't do one thing. 17:04.371 --> 17:06.193 [SPEAKER_00]: They can't even tighten a screw. 17:06.814 --> 17:09.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Because when it comes to physical skill, they can't do anything. 17:09.657 --> 17:14.603 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are some people that are without even studying engineering, they know better engineering than the mechanical engineer. 17:16.320 --> 17:19.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah gives different people different levels of skill, different levels of intellect. 17:19.722 --> 17:26.286 [SPEAKER_00]: And even within that, there's people that know mathematics, and then there are people that know mathematics, that own mathematics. 17:26.346 --> 17:26.866 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? 17:27.287 --> 17:29.808 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah has created, for example, the genius. 17:30.528 --> 17:34.271 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's people that are a business genius, whatever they touch turns to gold. 17:35.251 --> 17:37.913 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Allah has created people that they're the opposite. 17:37.953 --> 17:39.374 [SPEAKER_00]: They touch gold, it turns to dust. 17:40.294 --> 17:42.495 [SPEAKER_00]: But they keep trying new business ideas, right? 17:42.576 --> 17:44.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Like your cousin, sorry cousin, okay? 17:46.682 --> 18:02.814 [SPEAKER_00]: But it seems that there is a category of people in the world that have an unusual amount of success because they have some kind of an advantage, some kind of an intelligence advantage, some kind of a family advantage or a combination of those things. 18:02.834 --> 18:06.316 [SPEAKER_00]: They're super smart also and they have a head start also, right? 18:06.697 --> 18:13.161 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's one thing that you had a really great, you come from a very wealthy family and you got into Harvard Law School. 18:14.222 --> 18:21.166 [SPEAKER_00]: through some connections or whatever, but you can't survive Harvard Law School without being a certain level of intelligence caliber. 18:21.346 --> 18:27.009 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're super wealthy and you're on top of your class at Harvard, there's something there. 18:27.629 --> 18:29.230 [SPEAKER_00]: There's something unique there, right? 18:29.710 --> 18:35.373 [SPEAKER_00]: What he does also means that this is a person who was given an unusual amount of advantages in life. 18:36.214 --> 18:42.217 [SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of like, I don't know, Elon Musk or like a Zuckerberg or like, 18:42.829 --> 18:53.278 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, people that are just, they have this, you know, unique ability to take advantage of the market and take advantage of tech trends and jump on it at the right time. 18:53.318 --> 18:54.579 [SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody can become a musk. 18:54.840 --> 18:55.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Love a more hate. 18:55.440 --> 18:56.561 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not everybody can become one. 18:57.142 --> 18:58.583 [SPEAKER_00]: They wish they could, right? 18:58.823 --> 19:00.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody can become a Zuckerberg. 19:00.625 --> 19:01.806 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't matter how much you hate Facebook. 19:02.346 --> 19:07.631 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, but there are people who jump on opportunities like that and reach a certain level of success, right? 19:07.931 --> 19:12.876 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is a one of those star success stories and that's the person that I was talking about. 19:12.916 --> 19:13.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Now what about him? 19:14.177 --> 19:19.322 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing is when people become super successful with success automatically everybody starts respecting you. 19:20.403 --> 19:22.805 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't respect you for your looks. 19:22.825 --> 19:24.847 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't respect you for your character. 19:25.127 --> 19:25.968 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do they respect you? 19:27.393 --> 19:27.933 [SPEAKER_00]: They're success. 19:28.414 --> 19:32.036 [SPEAKER_00]: And they know you could not have been that successful unless you were super smart. 19:32.117 --> 19:33.798 [SPEAKER_00]: You must be smarter than everybody else. 19:34.158 --> 19:40.483 [SPEAKER_00]: You make smarter investments and you have better strategies than everybody else because you didn't get to where you got to by being dumb. 19:41.163 --> 19:43.105 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were just like the rest of us, you wouldn't be here. 19:43.425 --> 19:45.707 [SPEAKER_00]: Something special about you, you got ahead of everybody else. 19:46.007 --> 19:47.228 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the one that's Waheed. 19:48.168 --> 19:49.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Allah adds about this person. 19:53.606 --> 20:00.189 [SPEAKER_00]: And on top of that, I put in place for him money, wealth, that keeps on getting extended. 20:00.409 --> 20:01.949 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, he's already a millionaire. 20:02.670 --> 20:04.070 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave this already a millionaire. 20:04.531 --> 20:10.293 [SPEAKER_00]: But whatever investments he makes keeps on producing more and more residual income. 20:11.696 --> 20:13.277 [SPEAKER_00]: So he doesn't have any bad investments. 20:13.357 --> 20:19.139 [SPEAKER_00]: Every time he makes an investment, his empire expands even more, expands even more, expands even more. 20:19.479 --> 20:21.100 [SPEAKER_00]: And more wealth starts coming in. 20:21.400 --> 20:25.262 [SPEAKER_00]: When more wealth comes in, he invests it even more, it expands more. 20:25.382 --> 20:28.183 [SPEAKER_00]: And his he keeps on expanding his wealth empire. 20:28.504 --> 20:35.086 [SPEAKER_00]: Bigger and bigger and bigger, Allah says, I gave him the kind of wealth that keeps on getting stretched on top of stretched on top of stretched. 20:35.186 --> 20:36.007 [SPEAKER_00]: Malan Mamduda. 20:37.298 --> 20:40.399 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so now he's got money and he's got respect. 20:41.099 --> 20:41.819 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's unique. 20:42.819 --> 20:45.440 [SPEAKER_00]: And the other advantages, what Benina and he's got children. 20:46.460 --> 20:47.060 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got sons. 20:48.541 --> 20:52.762 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he says, what Benina, Shuhuda, sons, Shuhuda's interesting here. 20:53.082 --> 20:53.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Shuhud means sons. 20:54.022 --> 20:54.942 [SPEAKER_00]: He keeps an eye on. 20:54.982 --> 20:56.543 [SPEAKER_00]: What meaning is he keeps an eye on them? 20:57.703 --> 21:00.643 [SPEAKER_00]: So the son says, Dad, I'm gonna move to New York. 21:00.784 --> 21:01.284 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're not. 21:01.464 --> 21:02.424 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna help with the business. 21:03.567 --> 21:04.567 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to stay right here. 21:05.327 --> 21:07.028 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to marry and move to Hawaii. 21:07.088 --> 21:07.688 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're not. 21:08.108 --> 21:09.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Bring the girl from Hawaii. 21:09.068 --> 21:10.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Move right here in the backyard. 21:10.709 --> 21:12.029 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll build your own little apartment. 21:12.529 --> 21:15.170 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to keep an eye on his sons, right? 21:15.590 --> 21:19.551 [SPEAKER_00]: It also means the sons, you know what happens when the next generation grows up. 21:19.871 --> 21:21.391 [SPEAKER_00]: They have their own dreams. 21:22.371 --> 21:23.451 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to get a PhD. 21:23.511 --> 21:24.572 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to go do this school. 21:24.612 --> 21:25.352 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to join this. 21:25.392 --> 21:26.392 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to do that, right? 21:26.792 --> 21:29.813 [SPEAKER_00]: And many of the times, their dreams means leaving home. 21:30.857 --> 21:33.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe sometimes it even means leaving the hometown, right? 21:33.918 --> 21:39.960 [SPEAKER_00]: But he is so successful that his sons look around and say, wherever we go, we're not gonna have the advantages that we have. 21:41.061 --> 21:43.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Being right here, I'm gonna join Dad's business. 21:43.422 --> 21:44.162 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna help out. 21:45.383 --> 21:47.143 [SPEAKER_00]: So his sons stay within his sight. 21:48.284 --> 21:48.864 [SPEAKER_00]: His sons stay. 21:48.964 --> 21:50.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Now what happens with poorer families? 21:50.705 --> 21:51.865 [SPEAKER_00]: Poor families have a son. 21:52.385 --> 21:53.906 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, this is one more mouth to feed. 21:54.726 --> 21:59.348 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what son go out there and go find your life for you if you make, if you become successful, send some money back home. 22:00.408 --> 22:22.445 [SPEAKER_00]: right so this the Arabs would travel all the time to make money and they would send their young sons to go and make money so they don't get to see their children by the way does that happen still struggling families having to send their children for a better education for a better work opportunity for better business away from home does that happen today it's the history of the entire world there are many people sitting in this question as part of that phenomenon 22:23.740 --> 22:30.384 [SPEAKER_00]: And unless he had so much money and so much wealth and so much influence, his sons didn't need to go anywhere. 22:31.245 --> 22:32.266 [SPEAKER_00]: They could just stay right here. 22:32.326 --> 22:35.007 [SPEAKER_00]: But they're not sure who they're. 22:35.328 --> 22:37.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody knows, how many people here involved in business? 22:38.009 --> 22:40.451 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not involved in business, you don't have to raise your hand, don't be ashamed. 22:41.212 --> 22:42.112 [SPEAKER_00]: You work for a business. 22:43.253 --> 22:49.097 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know that if you're working in business or you're working for a business, business always runs into problems. 22:50.169 --> 23:14.663 [SPEAKER_00]: tax problem payment accounts receivable accounts payable delivery didn't come security issue economy collapse this happened that happened tariffs you name it business business is always full of problems or you lost a customer or a customer decided that they you placed the order but they decided they want to cancel the order all that kind of stuff right and sometimes life is going really well until a couple of customers decide to 23:15.994 --> 23:17.154 [SPEAKER_00]: stab you in the back, and that's it. 23:17.915 --> 23:22.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Or a new competitor comes in the market, and then they're taking half your customers away, right? 23:22.696 --> 23:23.196 [SPEAKER_00]: That happens. 23:23.956 --> 23:27.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says about him, wa ma'hat-tulahut-amhida. 23:28.218 --> 23:36.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only, and by the way, the more successful you get in business, what also appears enemies, competition. 23:36.880 --> 23:39.441 [SPEAKER_00]: People are looking at you like, this guy's got a lot of money. 23:39.481 --> 23:40.622 [SPEAKER_00]: We gotta do something about that. 23:41.762 --> 23:43.062 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's going into this business. 23:43.102 --> 23:44.963 [SPEAKER_00]: We need to take some of that market share, isn't it? 23:46.157 --> 23:48.939 [SPEAKER_00]: The moment you become successful, you'll start getting copycats. 23:49.740 --> 23:50.881 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll start getting competitors. 23:51.201 --> 23:54.764 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll start getting people that are jealous even within your own family trying to say, you know what? 23:54.864 --> 23:59.367 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're successful, but you know the product isn't that good or this isn't that trying to sabotage. 24:00.408 --> 24:04.091 [SPEAKER_00]: And the more wealthy you get, sometimes there's even jealousy of the people that work for you. 24:05.032 --> 24:06.953 [SPEAKER_00]: The people who work for you are like, what does he have all the money? 24:06.973 --> 24:07.814 [SPEAKER_00]: You think she's the boss? 24:08.715 --> 24:11.757 [SPEAKER_00]: I could be the boss, but first I must burn his business down from inside. 24:12.638 --> 24:13.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I'll start my own. 24:14.419 --> 24:15.040 [SPEAKER_00]: You could have that. 24:16.077 --> 24:25.363 [SPEAKER_00]: But Allah says for this guy, who kept on expanding and expanding and expanding, Allah says, wa ma'hat-tulahutam hida, I kept making the roads smooth for him. 24:26.764 --> 24:31.687 [SPEAKER_00]: All the problems that would occur, Allah keeps himself erasing the problems. 24:32.887 --> 24:37.770 [SPEAKER_00]: So now Allah is introducing us, before he tell, right now Allah hasn't told us anything that he's done wrong. 24:38.931 --> 24:43.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah hasn't done, by the way, Allah did not give us a detailed profile of Allah. 24:43.454 --> 24:43.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he? 24:44.753 --> 24:47.654 [SPEAKER_00]: No, he didn't give us a detailed profile of Abu Jahad. 24:48.595 --> 24:50.536 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, he would have been a good guy if he became Muslim. 24:51.756 --> 25:05.762 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he comes to a lead, you get a whole background story of how much wealth, how much facilitation, how much stability, how much expansion, how much security, all these details, and the whole society on them is being introduced to him. 25:06.022 --> 25:13.646 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the less a lot begins, and he says, thumb my ultimate, and as he, and then after all of that, he has more advantages than everybody else. 25:14.538 --> 25:16.825 [SPEAKER_00]: His unique where he stands, nobody's in his position. 25:17.868 --> 25:22.581 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he wishes with all of his heart that we would give him, I would give him more. 25:24.015 --> 25:24.575 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants more. 25:25.436 --> 25:26.076 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not enough. 25:26.757 --> 25:29.178 [SPEAKER_00]: The thirst for expanding your empire didn't go away. 25:29.839 --> 25:40.105 [SPEAKER_00]: He can't look at his mansions and his land and his hundreds of camels and sons and all of everything set and say, I think I can retire now. 25:40.945 --> 25:42.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Read some books, make some new poetry. 25:43.667 --> 25:45.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Something hang out with Abulahab, I don't know. 25:47.049 --> 25:48.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Nah, I need to wipe. 25:49.966 --> 25:56.611 [SPEAKER_00]: expand more, I need more, I need more, I need more, I need more. 25:56.651 --> 25:57.912 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't get to expand anymore. 25:59.012 --> 26:01.234 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah already mentioned that He gave him money that expands. 26:02.395 --> 26:06.157 [SPEAKER_00]: But Allah says no more, in the Hukan Ali Ayaatina, I need. 26:07.598 --> 26:10.921 [SPEAKER_00]: He was very stubborn when He came across our Ayaat. 26:11.821 --> 26:13.723 [SPEAKER_00]: He became stubborn when He came across the Quran. 26:15.986 --> 26:16.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Saurouda. 26:17.267 --> 26:22.190 [SPEAKER_00]: I will make him climb covered in dust over a mountain that gets higher and higher. 26:22.571 --> 26:31.117 [SPEAKER_00]: If you guys have ever gone hiking, not very many opportunities for us to hike in Dallas, because it's about as flat as a European personality. 26:33.412 --> 26:40.797 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you go to, if you go to a mountain area, if you ever gone hiking, the longer you hike, you start hyperventilating. 26:41.698 --> 26:43.719 [SPEAKER_00]: The air starts getting thinner, right? 26:43.799 --> 26:45.120 [SPEAKER_00]: It gets more and more difficult. 26:45.500 --> 26:47.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Your body starts exhausting itself, right? 26:47.882 --> 26:51.605 [SPEAKER_00]: And the more progress you make, the more totally takes on you. 26:52.165 --> 26:55.167 [SPEAKER_00]: And your supplies are running out because your further away from base. 26:55.788 --> 27:01.552 [SPEAKER_00]: So you have to conserve the water, conserve the food, et cetera, et cetera, because your further away from any checkpoint, right? 27:02.572 --> 27:04.833 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless as I will make him go up on a hike, basically. 27:05.774 --> 27:06.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Cover him and dirt. 27:06.954 --> 27:13.817 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a lot of way of saying, I'm going to bring him, I will bring a downfall to his empire one loss at a time. 27:15.418 --> 27:19.400 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll show him, this expanded empire is going to start shrinking. 27:19.560 --> 27:23.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you report suggest he died, basically, penniless. 27:24.282 --> 27:25.063 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, died penniless. 27:26.703 --> 27:32.805 [SPEAKER_00]: So slowly but surely all that empire starts reducing reducing reducing reducing reducing and it's gone. 27:33.085 --> 27:35.726 [SPEAKER_00]: But before we get there, why would Allah do that to him? 27:36.246 --> 27:39.007 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah would not have done that to him if he didn't commit this crime. 27:39.067 --> 27:44.128 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah is going to explain his crime and that's what I want to spend the rest of this discussion helping you understand. 27:44.828 --> 27:46.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Hufakkarah, Wakadam. 27:46.969 --> 27:47.649 [SPEAKER_00]: People came to him. 27:48.390 --> 27:49.030 [SPEAKER_00]: He was one of them. 27:49.230 --> 27:53.131 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the most well spoken poet of the elites. 27:54.729 --> 27:55.731 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he was at the top of the top. 27:56.753 --> 28:02.282 [SPEAKER_00]: So when the Quran problem came, Abu Lahab's dealing with the problem is using foul language. 28:03.625 --> 28:05.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jahaz we have dealing with the problem, let's just kill him. 28:07.982 --> 28:10.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Enemy of the state, killing, no, no, we can't kill them. 28:10.343 --> 28:11.424 [SPEAKER_00]: They are political problems. 28:11.724 --> 28:14.605 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see if there's a more strategic solution. 28:14.826 --> 28:16.246 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, who's going to be their strategist? 28:16.506 --> 28:18.848 [SPEAKER_00]: It ain't going to be Abu Lahab and it's not going to be Abu Jahan. 28:18.888 --> 28:19.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's going to be the strategist? 28:20.668 --> 28:25.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he's a business guy and business people are all about strategy. 28:25.791 --> 28:27.732 [SPEAKER_00]: So they come to him and say, what do you say about Islam? 28:28.853 --> 28:29.913 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us what should we say? 28:30.954 --> 28:34.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I didn't give it, I was too busy making money. 28:35.836 --> 28:36.517 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me give it some thought. 28:37.612 --> 28:39.033 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes and listens to the Quran. 28:40.453 --> 28:41.293 [SPEAKER_00]: He listens to the Quran. 28:42.134 --> 28:44.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And he actually thinks about what is being said. 28:45.535 --> 28:46.235 [SPEAKER_00]: He thinks about it. 28:46.716 --> 28:52.558 [SPEAKER_00]: And the claim in the Quran is if you truly think about what Allah is saying, what will happen? 28:54.479 --> 28:55.419 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to come to Islam. 28:57.060 --> 28:59.060 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah says in the Hufakara, he thought about it. 29:00.141 --> 29:02.842 [SPEAKER_00]: He thought deeply, which means he was on the right track towards 29:03.765 --> 29:12.187 [SPEAKER_00]: The guidance, the al-Humyata Fakaroun, or Ansas, the Dhambarwati, so they think deeply, he did that part, then Allah says Fakad-Dara. 29:12.867 --> 29:15.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he started making calculations. 29:16.508 --> 29:19.028 [SPEAKER_00]: If Allah just said, that's a good thing. 29:19.748 --> 29:23.369 [SPEAKER_00]: But Allah says, that's a good thing. 29:24.089 --> 29:25.069 [SPEAKER_00]: What are those calculations? 29:25.349 --> 29:26.070 [SPEAKER_00]: He's thinking, okay. 29:27.230 --> 29:32.611 [SPEAKER_00]: So if I accept this, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose Abu Lahab as my main customer. 29:34.258 --> 29:48.483 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure Abuja has also going to get angry with me and he's going to turn all the other leaders against me and all the political contracts I have, all the government contracts I have with all the tribe leaders that they let me use their well and they buy from my milk and all of that's going to stop. 29:48.503 --> 29:53.925 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to find somebody else because they're going to boycott me because I'm with, I'm pro Muhammad. 29:54.445 --> 29:55.366 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the advantages? 29:55.426 --> 29:58.727 [SPEAKER_00]: If I accept this, I think it has a chance of winning. 30:00.073 --> 30:01.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe because Islam is powerful. 30:02.035 --> 30:02.736 [SPEAKER_00]: It is powerful. 30:03.096 --> 30:04.097 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people have accepted. 30:04.157 --> 30:07.861 [SPEAKER_00]: So if I come into Islam, maybe it will become on the winning side. 30:08.341 --> 30:10.643 [SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, that's also a consideration. 30:11.244 --> 30:11.424 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. 30:11.965 --> 30:12.565 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a toss up. 30:12.585 --> 30:13.386 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to do here. 30:13.406 --> 30:16.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, okay, even if I reject it, 30:17.889 --> 30:20.051 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't reject it the way that Abu Jahl rejects it. 30:20.572 --> 30:22.354 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't reject it the way that Abu Lahab rejects it. 30:22.614 --> 30:26.658 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to have a smart rejection because these people come to me thinking that I'm the smart one. 30:26.959 --> 30:32.164 [SPEAKER_00]: So I need to show them that the only person who could truly reject and finish Islam was me. 30:32.505 --> 30:34.347 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jahl couldn't finish the job Abu Lahab. 30:34.787 --> 30:36.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll have couldn't finish the job. 30:36.448 --> 30:37.508 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the guy to finish the job. 30:37.788 --> 30:42.871 [SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm the one to finish the job, then I won't just be the one they look up to in business strategy. 30:43.191 --> 30:48.453 [SPEAKER_00]: I will have a new political dominant position because I helped the nation out of a crisis. 30:49.394 --> 30:49.934 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? 30:51.215 --> 30:52.775 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's doing all these calculations. 30:53.916 --> 30:55.356 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the one thing he's not thinking about? 30:56.737 --> 30:57.978 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it doesn't matter if it's true. 30:59.092 --> 31:03.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it's true, then I'm ruining my meeting with God one day, judgment day. 31:03.955 --> 31:04.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that's later. 31:05.216 --> 31:07.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, I got an empire to expand. 31:08.799 --> 31:13.622 [SPEAKER_00]: So all of his thoughts were reduced to his business strategy. 31:17.685 --> 31:18.426 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:18.446 --> 31:18.766 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:18.786 --> 31:19.126 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:19.146 --> 31:20.207 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:20.227 --> 31:20.768 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:20.788 --> 31:21.568 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:21.608 --> 31:22.950 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:22.970 --> 31:23.510 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:23.530 --> 31:24.291 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:24.311 --> 31:25.031 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:25.051 --> 31:25.452 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:25.472 --> 31:26.252 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:26.272 --> 31:26.633 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:26.673 --> 31:27.013 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:27.033 --> 31:27.814 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:27.854 --> 31:28.334 [SPEAKER_00]: May he be killed. 31:41.698 --> 31:42.878 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to come to him like a friend. 31:43.259 --> 31:43.719 [SPEAKER_00]: I like you. 31:44.579 --> 31:48.821 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the smart people in Muka, you're from the Hashem family, noble family. 31:49.721 --> 31:50.762 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want to see you hurt. 31:52.042 --> 31:55.363 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to see you succeed and this thing you're doing is good. 31:56.204 --> 31:58.425 [SPEAKER_00]: How about Monday, Wednesday, Friday for you? 32:00.705 --> 32:04.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Tuesday, Thursday and the weekends, we do our thing. 32:05.309 --> 32:11.153 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just have a shared, you know, co-existence of Maka. 32:11.473 --> 32:12.674 [SPEAKER_00]: We do our share-con-the-weekends. 32:12.694 --> 32:14.035 [SPEAKER_00]: You can have your own prayer, no problem. 32:14.956 --> 32:15.296 [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't. 32:15.896 --> 32:16.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's work something out. 32:17.497 --> 32:18.358 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to negotiate. 32:18.658 --> 32:20.319 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he coming to the prophesies on like an enemy? 32:21.400 --> 32:23.801 [SPEAKER_00]: No, he's coming like a friend with a handshake. 32:24.422 --> 32:25.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even with a check in his hand. 32:26.323 --> 32:27.384 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready to cash this check. 32:27.424 --> 32:28.184 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to help you. 32:28.505 --> 32:29.225 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to get married? 32:29.425 --> 32:30.126 [SPEAKER_00]: Who do you want to marry? 32:30.306 --> 32:31.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Just point at the girl. 32:31.627 --> 32:32.207 [SPEAKER_00]: Just point at him. 32:32.487 --> 32:33.148 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll make it happen. 32:34.156 --> 32:35.016 [SPEAKER_00]: What'd we got you covered? 32:36.477 --> 32:39.778 [SPEAKER_00]: He's coming to the Prophet like an enemy, probably like a friend. 32:40.638 --> 32:45.120 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he goes to the Qur'an, he also goes to them like a friend, because he doesn't want enemies. 32:45.400 --> 32:48.881 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants friends everywhere, because he's a true politician. 32:49.642 --> 32:50.962 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a true businessman. 32:51.342 --> 32:55.564 [SPEAKER_00]: And a businessman, when just wants, you know, the weapons manufacturers that sell weapons to both sides? 32:57.805 --> 32:58.445 [SPEAKER_00]: He's that guy. 32:59.465 --> 33:02.707 [SPEAKER_00]: He is the smartest kind of enemy the Prophet had. 33:03.207 --> 33:03.607 [SPEAKER_00]: So I said them. 33:04.770 --> 33:06.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Abu Jail is easy to figure out. 33:07.313 --> 33:09.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jail would have a straight forward, this guy. 33:11.257 --> 33:12.358 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a snake man. 33:13.059 --> 33:13.800 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's smart. 33:14.641 --> 33:15.682 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll kill you with a smile. 33:17.544 --> 33:18.945 [SPEAKER_00]: And he does a lot of calculations. 33:18.965 --> 33:20.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at how many times Allah mentions this calculating. 33:23.808 --> 33:25.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Fakutilagai Fakadar. 33:25.730 --> 33:36.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Fumakutilagai Fakadar, kadar, kadar, kadar off and what kind of diabolical scheming he did even Allah is showing how impressive his scheming is. 33:37.862 --> 33:39.323 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how smart this guy is. 33:39.743 --> 33:41.444 [SPEAKER_00]: We already knew he's smarter than most people. 33:41.884 --> 33:44.485 [SPEAKER_00]: And now he's using all of his smarts for what? 33:44.905 --> 33:47.347 [SPEAKER_00]: To strategize what to do about Islam. 33:47.387 --> 33:51.529 [SPEAKER_00]: And he realized, no, no, no, I don't think it's in my strategic advantage to accept Islam. 33:52.009 --> 33:54.370 [SPEAKER_00]: It's in my strategic advantage to oppose Islam. 33:54.650 --> 34:03.514 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to use this opportunity to make the elites of Makhka think not only that I'm on their side, but I am smarter than all of them. 34:03.814 --> 34:04.675 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes to them. 34:05.195 --> 34:06.516 [SPEAKER_00]: And they say, so, what do you say? 34:06.696 --> 34:08.156 [SPEAKER_00]: And he doesn't just say, here's what I think. 34:08.997 --> 34:09.677 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't just say it. 34:10.297 --> 34:11.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless it's plumb and never. 34:11.818 --> 34:13.899 [SPEAKER_00]: They say, so, so tell us, you might have mud. 34:14.079 --> 34:14.539 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think? 34:14.699 --> 34:15.179 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think? 34:15.359 --> 34:16.740 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like silence. 34:17.861 --> 34:19.941 [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody, uh, is he gonna say something? 34:20.582 --> 34:21.622 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God, he's thinking about it. 34:21.642 --> 34:25.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God, I can't wait when he tells us, because he's really like, put work into it. 34:26.564 --> 34:32.587 [SPEAKER_00]: The closest analogy to that I can give you is when you go to a back sign in restaurant and they bring the food too quickly, you know it was microwaveed. 34:37.103 --> 34:43.868 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you go to a Pakistan restaurant and you've been waiting from Vohara to Lassar and the food hasn't come, you might be angry, but it's gonna be good. 34:45.609 --> 34:48.411 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they went to a microwave, three blocks away, because they didn't have it. 34:53.454 --> 34:57.517 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, the fact that he's taking his time, what is the impression he's giving these guys? 34:58.927 --> 35:02.108 [SPEAKER_00]: that he's really like putting deep thinking about it. 35:02.128 --> 35:04.449 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're thinking, man, we didn't think about it that much. 35:04.829 --> 35:05.829 [SPEAKER_00]: We should have thought about that much. 35:05.869 --> 35:10.831 [SPEAKER_00]: The only guy who can think about this really is, this one, from another, from my Abbasat. 35:12.052 --> 35:16.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, frowning, hmm, Albasat. 35:17.433 --> 35:27.317 [SPEAKER_00]: And then finally, ah, from my Abbasat, then he gets up and turns his back and starts walking, pacing back and forth, from my Abbasat. 35:28.397 --> 35:31.383 [SPEAKER_00]: And then as he's walking, then he starts doing the evil villain life. 35:31.764 --> 35:34.831 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't say anything yet. 35:35.372 --> 35:37.336 [SPEAKER_00]: And people are also like, he figured it out. 35:37.677 --> 35:38.058 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it? 35:38.098 --> 35:38.439 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it? 35:38.479 --> 35:38.879 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it? 35:44.556 --> 36:03.282 [SPEAKER_00]: this is a kind of magic that has been passed down from ancient times Muhammad probably went somewhere in the desert found some ancient scroll from some ancient magicians and using these lines on you that's why they work so well we know how good magicians are this is a really good magician in 36:04.423 --> 36:11.810 [SPEAKER_00]: But in the end, don't worry, as much as good as his magic is, it's just the word of a guy. 36:11.830 --> 36:13.111 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a man talking. 36:13.711 --> 36:14.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry, I can deal with that. 36:15.693 --> 36:16.313 [SPEAKER_00]: I can handle it. 36:23.078 --> 36:25.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would Allah tell us in so much detail about it? 36:26.001 --> 36:34.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Because even today, everywhere in the world, whether we're in the Muslim world or wearing America or Australia or Canada, wherever we are, they're going to be people that will come out and tell you they hate you. 36:36.051 --> 36:37.672 [SPEAKER_00]: Go back to your Islam country. 36:41.075 --> 36:41.356 [SPEAKER_00]: You know? 36:42.557 --> 36:44.419 [SPEAKER_00]: And they'll be, some of them will be like Abu Dhab. 36:46.238 --> 36:51.827 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be vile and uncultured and mean and mean spirit, et cetera. 36:52.387 --> 36:53.189 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be people like that. 36:53.669 --> 36:56.353 [SPEAKER_00]: They're simple, at least you could tell them from a mile away. 36:57.527 --> 36:59.008 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's going to be the Abujahal kinds. 36:59.729 --> 37:01.150 [SPEAKER_00]: I met an Abujahal kind. 37:02.111 --> 37:05.653 [SPEAKER_00]: I was doing some construction work at our Bayon campus some years ago. 37:06.174 --> 37:08.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And the guy came and he said, what do y'all do here? 37:08.135 --> 37:10.457 [SPEAKER_00]: He was like, we teach the word on. 37:10.477 --> 37:11.358 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't be part of that. 37:11.878 --> 37:14.400 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe your religion is the religion of the devil. 37:15.301 --> 37:18.343 [SPEAKER_00]: And y'all don't teach people about the salvation of Jesus Christ. 37:19.024 --> 37:20.104 [SPEAKER_00]: I will have no part in it. 37:20.185 --> 37:20.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, sir. 37:21.966 --> 37:23.827 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, I respect that. 37:24.788 --> 37:25.809 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have lunch sometimes. 37:27.686 --> 37:27.946 [SPEAKER_00]: You know. 37:29.646 --> 37:33.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Because even though he sees Islam as an enemy, he's honorable about it. 37:34.387 --> 37:35.167 [SPEAKER_00]: He's open about it. 37:35.307 --> 37:36.068 [SPEAKER_00]: This is more like who? 37:36.128 --> 37:38.008 [SPEAKER_00]: It was more like a Bujad. 37:39.248 --> 37:42.889 [SPEAKER_00]: But then there's the politician who comes to you and says, I love the Muslim community. 37:44.649 --> 37:46.229 [SPEAKER_00]: This election we're gonna show them. 37:46.909 --> 37:48.550 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're all about the minorities. 37:50.630 --> 37:50.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 37:51.990 --> 37:53.531 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's gonna tell you what you want to hear. 37:53.591 --> 37:54.571 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll be like, tachy! 37:57.108 --> 38:03.673 [SPEAKER_00]: And the same guy, when the camera's not on, and when the mic is not on, and he gets in the car and he's talking to his buddies. 38:04.033 --> 38:04.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, got him. 38:06.715 --> 38:08.817 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you understand? 38:09.797 --> 38:11.719 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they have their own strategies. 38:12.559 --> 38:15.862 [SPEAKER_00]: You're just a pawn in their strategy. 38:16.122 --> 38:17.003 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not important. 38:17.783 --> 38:20.185 [SPEAKER_00]: How can they use you for their investments? 38:20.985 --> 38:22.326 [SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's what's important. 38:23.447 --> 38:26.488 [SPEAKER_00]: And this doesn't just happen in America. 38:27.468 --> 38:28.628 [SPEAKER_00]: This can happen in Egypt. 38:28.868 --> 38:30.268 [SPEAKER_00]: This can happen in Pakistan. 38:30.308 --> 38:31.608 [SPEAKER_00]: This can happen in Bangladesh. 38:31.648 --> 38:34.829 [SPEAKER_00]: This can anywhere, politicians, business people. 38:35.209 --> 38:36.669 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are very principled people. 38:37.029 --> 38:42.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them just use you for how they can, they can use you as an investment into their own plan. 38:43.751 --> 38:46.751 [SPEAKER_00]: You're just an upon, nothing more. 38:47.371 --> 38:48.572 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't even see you as people. 38:49.512 --> 38:50.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, they don't even see you as people. 38:51.780 --> 38:55.063 [SPEAKER_00]: But when they meet with you, they make you feel really special. 38:55.083 --> 38:59.306 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, that VIP decided to shake my hand. 39:00.167 --> 39:00.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Met with me? 39:01.368 --> 39:02.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Made me feel important? 39:03.390 --> 39:04.451 [SPEAKER_00]: This was what Wallyed was. 39:05.752 --> 39:06.613 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what Wallyed was. 39:07.213 --> 39:09.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Rasul Sai Selam has not dealt with Wallyed yet. 39:09.555 --> 39:11.177 [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the earliest solas, remember? 39:12.538 --> 39:17.122 [SPEAKER_00]: And perhaps this exchange with Wallyed is going to happen years down the road, possible. 39:18.265 --> 39:22.566 [SPEAKER_00]: But well before it happens, a soul-loss isolation is being prepared of what's coming. 39:23.766 --> 39:39.089 [SPEAKER_00]: So the last thing I share with you tonight, Muslims are being trained in the Quran to understand their enemies and to think ahead and to be prepared for what's coming towards them and to be politically smart, to be strategically smart. 39:39.789 --> 39:46.270 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not, if you don't understand where these people come from and what their games are, then you will fall a trap into their games easily. 39:47.661 --> 39:54.846 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why we have reduced studying the book of Allah to studying stories that happened in ancient times. 39:55.506 --> 39:59.829 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've reduced the book of Allah to something that helps us only in only spiritually. 39:59.849 --> 40:01.790 [SPEAKER_00]: And it absolutely does help us spiritually. 40:02.351 --> 40:10.136 [SPEAKER_00]: But man, this book is a guide for how to not just uplift yourself as an individual, but even protect yourselves as a community as an umma. 40:10.596 --> 40:17.840 [SPEAKER_00]: Rasul Sai Salam was being prepared for one enemy as an individual and through him the entire Omma is being protected from the likes of these kinds of people. 40:18.861 --> 40:25.825 [SPEAKER_00]: From these kinds of strategies and this is just the early one as the Quran progresses all of his strategies are going to get exposed. 40:27.300 --> 40:34.602 [SPEAKER_00]: He has other strategies he uses, other tools he uses, other propaganda machinery he uses, a lot exposes all of it. 40:35.262 --> 40:42.924 [SPEAKER_00]: All one by one, Sura by Sura, especially the early Suras, you'll find that it's the Walid category that gets the most attention. 40:44.124 --> 40:47.185 [SPEAKER_00]: He gets more attention than Abu Jahan, gets more attention than Abu Jahan. 40:47.205 --> 40:47.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Jahan, why? 40:48.105 --> 40:51.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Because this is the enemy that you really gotta worry about, because it's the silent enemy. 40:52.286 --> 40:53.866 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the enemy that smiles in your face. 40:54.967 --> 40:55.927 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the enemy next door. 40:56.956 --> 41:01.619 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the enemy that in the end, even when he's your friend, he's actually still your enemy. 41:03.201 --> 41:04.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Even when he's your friend. 41:04.962 --> 41:07.944 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's the only thing that honest mind is a calculation. 41:08.945 --> 41:09.946 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all that he cares about. 41:09.966 --> 41:13.748 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why Adara, Adara, and Adara. 41:14.209 --> 41:15.870 [SPEAKER_00]: We are living in an age as I end this. 41:16.090 --> 41:22.935 [SPEAKER_00]: We're living in an age where we know that many governments in the world are deeply influenced by multi-billion dollar corporations. 41:22.955 --> 41:23.556 [SPEAKER_00]: You guys know that. 41:24.614 --> 41:27.277 [SPEAKER_00]: And those multi-billion dollar corporations, they only have one agenda. 41:28.178 --> 41:29.160 [SPEAKER_00]: A financial growth. 41:30.141 --> 41:31.623 [SPEAKER_00]: How do they expand to new markets? 41:32.203 --> 41:34.066 [SPEAKER_00]: How do they get their product to be produced cheaper? 41:34.406 --> 41:37.350 [SPEAKER_00]: And how do they sell it more expensively to the people they steal it from? 41:38.594 --> 41:39.555 [SPEAKER_00]: That's their only agenda. 41:40.215 --> 42:00.546 [SPEAKER_00]: And for that, they have to do a lot of forecasting and calculating and strategizing, and for that, they have to create interest groups and lobby groups, and they have to create entire legal machineries so they can influence governments, influence universities, influence institutions to push the world in a direction that helps them with their willy the agenda. 42:01.967 --> 42:07.570 [SPEAKER_00]: So what used to be one person is now entire corporations, a lot prepared as well in advance. 42:08.486 --> 42:10.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah prepared us well, well in advance. 42:10.926 --> 42:13.647 [SPEAKER_00]: For what is happening now and what will continue to happen? 42:14.047 --> 42:16.728 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah Azzaugil make us an umma that keeps its eyes open. 42:17.188 --> 42:26.909 [SPEAKER_00]: And may Allah Azzaugil make us an umma that is able to draw real guidance from the Qur'an so we can see the world and what is happening in the world through the lens, through the guidance that Allah has revealed to us.