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Hopefully, it will be regular for the remainder of Ramadan.

Another episode of Council in Healing and Ayah that I found striking that I've been meaning to talk to you about belongs to Suratul Ma'idah.

It's a pretty scary ayah, so I'll first give you guys a rough translation of the ayah and then we'll talk about something that I really think just spoke to me very loudly in this ayah.

Those of you who claim to have faith,

my turn back retreat away from his religion among you.

The people that love will replace you with, should you want to turn away from your religion, will be extremely humble and powerless when it comes to their dealings with believers.

They will be authoritative and straightforward and strong in their dealings with disbelievers.

They will struggle in Allah's path and they will not fear the blame cast by anyone who casts blame.

This ayah is, first of all, a pretty scary reality. This is Suratul Ma'idah. It's one of the last surahs to be revealed to the prophets.

So Makkah has basically been conquered at this point and Islam is the dominant religion in the Arabian Peninsula in the land of Hijaz.

That has already happened.

And now Allah is giving us sort of a, you can think of it as the Quran's farewell address, the Quran's parting advice for the Ummah moving forward.

How should they think about themselves?

And he mentions the reality. There will be people among you that don't want anything to do with the religion anymore.

They want to retreat, step back from the religion, right?

But this is different from what is experienced by a lot of people today.

So to, you know, one of the things that I had to learn in the course of not only my studies, but also engagement with people is a really difficult concept, empathy.

So when someone says, I want to leave Islam and I've had maybe hundreds of those conversations, probably not exaggerating, maybe more, probably thousands of those conversations.

Of men, women, youth, elders, sometimes very senior saying, I want to leave Islam.

I want nothing to do with this religion, right?

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