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So this is going to be in inshaAllah wa ta'ala or last halakah for this year of 2018.

And I thought that inshaAllah wa ta'ala will continue what I had done two weeks ago or three

weeks ago and we did the reality of bidah and I went over a number of important categories and

a number of issues. So please for those of you that haven't listened to part one, this is actually

part two. For those of you that haven't listened to that, please go back and listen to the reality

of bidah. This is actually a continuation from where we left off and we're going to be utilizing

some of the material from that lecture as well I'm not going to be go over it again. So today's

topic is about essentially celebrations but in order to understand celebrations we have to

link it to another topic and that is the topic of imitating the Qufar, ta shabbu al-Qufar and that

is because one of the main reasons why some of our scholars prohibit certain types of celebrations

is because they link it to the issue of imitating the Qufar and they say that because it is Haram

to imitate the Qufar therefore celebrations become Haram. So today's topic even though it's

about celebrations and the Firk of celebrations because it is so deeply entrenched with the issue

of ta shabbu we also have to briefly talk about that. Obviously I always make this disclaimer every

single time and I do so because a lot of times even if you see my comments and Facebook and Twitter

and whatnot a lot of people they say oh you missed this point you missed that point I have one

lecture and this topic can easily be many many lectures I can't do everything so I always make

this disclaimer still doesn't matter people say I haven't covered this or that yet in shAllah anyway

so let us begin today's topic is a very very sensitive one that some people some people get very

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