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And this is something that started to happen in the time of the Prophet,

sallu all right? So the ayah that I'm going to share with you, what Allah says,

innam an nudgewa, secret counsel, it only comes from the devil.

A couple of ayat that belong to Surat al-Mujadala, a very small sura of the Quran that deals

with a very particular subject matter predominantly in the heart of the

Sura and that is called nudgewa maybe a word that you're not familiar with

so I'll help you understand this word first so the word nudgewa actually has to do

with secret counsel like if you're holding meetings in secret with somebody and

discussing something privately that kind of a meeting can be called

Najua. And it could be something good and it could be something bad. So, for example, your

parents decide that they want to have a conversation about the finances and they close the door

and they say, kids go downstairs and they want to discuss something. Well, they're having a

nudgewa too. That's actually a form of najua that they're having.

Or the elders in the family are discussing something.

Or in a company when the executives are having a meeting and they close the conference room door, right?

They're having najua while the other employees are not supposed to know.

Specifically, is actually when the Prophet, Sallallu a a.m. was in Medina and the community of Muslims was growing.

And this mission was expanding all kinds of people were coming into Islam and they all kinds of different motivations

some people were very strong in their faith they really knew why they've become Muslim

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