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So it is not lost on any of us here the difficulties we find ourselves in.

This is the last week before the elections and in all likelihood this is,

well as of yet it has been the most difficult elections of our lifetime.

Allah knows what the future will hold, but the fact of the matter is that in all likelihood,

this election will decide quite a lot of things

on the global level.

There is even talk that we are close to World War III

right now because of what is happening.

Multiple countries are being involved in this debacle taking place.

And because our country is directly related to every single one of those countries,

Allah and Mustaan, we are facing a very difficult situation right now.

Tensions are at an all-time high and Muslims themselves are very much divided.

There's a lot of anger, a lot of fear, a lot of accusations,

even within our own community.

Today, in sha Allah, I want to shed a little bit of religious light.

Now I'm not going to be too explicit in my endorsement of any one group because of multiple factors

of them is that this is a Masjid and the laws of this country do not allow explicit

endorsements anyway. Nonetheless, political talk is not endorsement and one

can criticize policies without endorsing. So I want to begin actually with an incident from the

Syria that demonstrates the natural reality of living as a minority. It is

narrated with an authentic chain to the Tabirin that our mother

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