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Pizmila Rahma Rahim.

Mahmder I'll Allah Rabil alamein was Sala to

what's Sala, to what's salla,

Mohammedin, Ali, he was Sahiby Ajmāin.

Amabad. We thank Allah Aza Jajal for the opportunity to gather once again after our break after our hiatus for around two and a half months.

We're now coming back and resuming the lectures of the

sira and on hamd that we have covered I think around 35 lectures we have done

in which the maki period has been completely covered and we began talking about the Madani period and we began talking about the major changes that occurred in the first few months of the Madani phase.

And the most important of these was a new emphasis of the political freedom of the Muslims.

For the first time the Muslims have political freedom.

For the first time there is an independent state. For the first

time the Muslims can act as a political body whereas in Mecca they were a

persecuted minority in Medina and now they have a the beginnings if you like of a

republic I mean these terms are of course not represented what you call it

republic whether you call it a political entity is really the best type of description and as I had already

mentioned in the last few lessons that we did there were two threats facing them

one of them internal and the other external.

And each one of these threats we will discuss in the next few weeks.

As for the internal threats, Medina was not yet unified under the Prophet's

of some, and in fact there would always be a group of people

who were not happy with the changes and these are of course who are they

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