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So what I want to share with you today, is reflections and some teachings from about 11 a yacht of the

Quran if Allah allows for that for our time to be productive I hope to go

through 11 ayaat.

For those of you that are taking notes which are obviously only on the sister's side,

this is Aya number 153 to 163, 153 to 163 of Suritl Bakara. You guys know Suritl Bakara is the longest

Surah of the Quran. And the first part of this Surah a huge chunk of it is

dedicated to the nation that was given

revelation before us. That's the Israelites, Banu Israel. They were given the

Torahat and they were given messenger or prophet after prophet after profit to renew the teachings of the Torah.

And this went on for many many centuries.

Allah gave them a chance to live by this book

and be a role model for all of humanity.

Everyone in all the nations of the world were supposed

to not just get the message of Islam from a person, you know how you do that way to a person

as an individual, but actually you were supposed to receive the message of Islam from an entire nation

that models the religion.

And that was supposed to be the Israelites.

That's why Allah kept giving them profit after profit after profit, so they could make the case to all of humanity

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