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So today, as I talk to you about I.S. 85, and 86, what I wanted to do is I want you to

talk to you first about I.S. 86 because in a sense, it is a direct continuation of what I was

talking about before, which nation has Allah condemned that we were talking about last time, right?

And it reinforces that in the middle, Allah interjected with qualities, personality traits of

Ibrahim Aleyhi s-salam. So I wanted to hold that off for last and kind of focus on that, and now

I'll talk about the benefits of putting that in the middle anyway. So Allah Azza wa Jalla turns

his attention to Ibrahim Aleyhi s-salam and says, Ya Ibrahim, A'ab Ibn Haadah, or it is the angels

who said it, which means the same thing. It is coming from Allah Ibrahim, ignore this. Ibrahim,

ignore this. Now we have to take a step back again when we read the stories in the Quran or we read

the incidents in the life of the Prophet's life, one very important factor in studying those stories

is Allah is the, he's not just the teller of the story, he is the designer, the architect,

the author of the story. In other words, what people came into contact with each other? What was

said? What was the reaction? None of this was unanticipated. Allah is all knowing, right? So Allah

Azza wa Jalla knows that when the angels are going to come to his house, he's going to be afraid.

Allah Azza wa Jalla already knows that when he gives them the good news, the angels give them

the good news of a child that they're going to have a reaction and they're going to want to,

Ibrahim is going to want to know more. I hear a really cute baby and it's all dead distracting

again. Where is this baby? He's all the way over there. His kids got lungs. I just, I saw Allah.

Anyway, okay, anyway, I'll ignore it. I don't know why I can't ignore it. I used to be,

I used to be head of a preschool and I heard all kinds of crying and banter and laughter and

attempted murders. None of it. You just affect me. Anyway, I've gotten soft. Anyway, so Ibrahim Ali

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