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We begin by praising Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him.

We bear witness that Muhammad ﷺ is his final messenger.

We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him.

The prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him and those that follow

and has blessed path until the day of judgment and we ask Allah to make us amongst them.

Dear brothers and sisters, we often talk about how we utilize the stories in the Qur'an for our benefit.

That Allah did not give us stories especially of perseverance or of persecution, of poverty or of power except that we take lessons from them and they are timeless lessons.

One of the things that Imam Qurta bi-Rahimullah Allah to Allah mentions is that while the sharia changes over time from prophets to prophet, the various laws,

we know that the creed stays the same, that the oneness of Allah does not change, the nature of prophethood does not change.

And he says something very interesting. He also says that the dynamics of Allah and of Madlum, of a oppressor and the oppressed do not change.

The dynamics of how wealth can corrupt people or people can become arrogant because of what Allah has bestowed upon them or humbled because of what has been withheld from them.

None of that changes. So Subhanallah, the study of human history, when you study arrogant nations and oppressed nations, arrogant tyrants and righteous people that rise up amongst the oppressed,

people that see through the kingdom that has been given to them, which are very rare. The Surah Ma'narihi salam, those that are like him,

or whether you study the people who have been wronged to a point that they make it a point to advocate for those that are being wrong like them,

all of these are stories that are so timeless, that they can relate to us in every single generation which is why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala keeps them for us in the Qur'an.

So that we can do tadabar so that we can contemplate over them. Now when it comes to the stories of the oppressed and the stories of how Allah gives victory to the oppressed,

as the Muslims have now just settled in Medina after 13 years of persecution or after hosting the people that have been persecuted for over a decade.

They have yet to go into a battle with the people of Mecca, who have put their foots on their necks for over a decade in Mecca,

who have taken their wealth, killed their family members, humiliated them, spit on them in public, all of that,

without seeing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doing anything to those people in Mecca in their lifetimes just yet.

And it is in that time period that Allah reveals to them the story of David and Goliath, the story of Thalut and Jalut,

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