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Qaslamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu alhamdulillahi wabigang

by praising Allah subhana wa ta'ala, the one and the unique.

It is He alone that we worship, and it is His blessing that we seek.

He is the Lord of the oppressed and He answers the dua of the week.

As to what follows, today is our usual Q&A, and I am going to begin with a very difficult

and awkward question.

the last two weeks I have been inundated with the questions about my thoughts regarding

the political developments in a particular Muslim land where Western forces have withdrawn

and the government that aspires to rule by the Sharia has taken over. Now initially I have declined

to comment but the incessant messages and emails and Facebook messages and Twitter comments

and YouTube comments even all asking me to comment and wanting to know my thoughts. I feel compelled

to answer however I will answer generically without mentioning the country by name for reasons

that should be obvious and also to extrapolate more benefits so that insha'Allah ta'ala the generic

thoughts that I share will be useful not just for this particular scenario you know this lecture

is being given in August of 2021. Allah knows how many more you know years people will be listening

to the lectures and I want to comment in a way that other incidents maybe somebody's living

listening 10 years 20 years maybe even 50 years from now that insha'Allah ta'ala the comments

that I give today will reflect generic benefits for multiple scenarios and not just specifically

to this one particular incident that has happened in this particular month of this particular year.

So I ask Allah for Taufiq and Hidayah it's a very very awkward question and that is why I hesitated to

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