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This week marks the regular commemoration or the anniversary of the horrific massacre that took place in the Bosnian War in Srebrenica.

And I thought that today inshallah let me remind or perhaps even teach our youth about this reality which was the worst genocide that took place in Europe

since World War II and a disproportionate number of people who were killed and massacred were of course Muslims.

So a lot of people are giving lectures and Facebook posts about the lessons learned.

So today inshallah in this short khatura especially for our youth who perhaps are not aware of this reality.

I wanted to go over and summarize some of the moral, some of the wisdoms and lessons we can extract from what happened in Bosnia in our own generation.

I myself was in university when the Bosnian War was taking place. Many of you above the age of 40 you know this first time what happened.

We would get updates the whole war that took place we saw what was going on. So this is in our own lifetimes.

And the Quran itself tells us to benefit from history, to learn from the realities.

Don't they travel in the land and see what happened to the nations before them?

The nations before them were stronger than you and they left more legacies than you and yet look what happened to them.

So Allah tells us to look at the past. Allah informs us to study history and to extract morals from them.

Now obviously only so much can be done in a 20 minute or 15 minute khatura but just to summarize inshallah to Allah.

Of the benefits that we learn of the morals that we extract is the reality of what the angel said to Allah when Allah said I'm creating man.

The angel said why would you do this when this is a species that will always go to war.

Always spread blood shed blood.

Subhadallah in the whole creation around us in the whole cosmos around us it is only mankind that goes to war perpetually.

No other beast no other animal no other species is constantly engaged in killing its own.

Yes one amongst the other might fight for food might fight for land might fight for something but to be divided and then entire groups of one species are one animal fighting the same animal.

No we are the only mahlukh we are the only creation and this is our trial and test and subhanallah there are periods of peace but then after every period of peace there comes war and the reality is we never learned from history.

Every time such type of mass genocide happens mankind comes together says never again.

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