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We ask Allah Shabhaniwata to guide us and to guide all of us to say the truth, to speak

the truth and to act upon the truth.

Brothers and sisters, this is a very sensitive and difficult topic and it deals with the

reality of how we as a community face the failures or the alleged failures of our leaders, our community leaders, our preachers,

our teachers, our do a'a'at, and those whom we look up to.

Now obviously, this talk is happening in the context of incidents or an incident that has

taken place, but my goal is to present guidelines that are beyond just one incident.

Because inshallah, this lecture will be viewed

maybe years down the line.

My goal is to teach you the usul,

it is called the kawa'a'id, the maxims.

It is how we analyze and what we do.

Not just about one specific issue,

but rather we set the template

so that, inshallahua ta'a'a

we are prepared we understand so

everything I'm saying today please understand it is a generic talk even though of

course there is a specific context that many of us are aware of we begin by setting up

the theological belief the aqueeda that we have that aqueeda is no human being is infallible after the prophet muhamma's

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