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Bismillah wa rahmatullahi wa sallam wa ala Rasulullah.

today, which Surah did we start with?

Surat Al-istrat and

by the way before I say anything

we can't talk about Surat Al-istrat and the blessings of Al-Uqsa without paying attention to what's happening in Al-Uqsa

right now where you have death squads that are going state sanctioned by an

oppressive regime enchanting death to Arabs and continuing to oppress our

brothers and sisters there. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala liberate al-Aqsa

and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala empower our brothers and sisters in

Palestine to overcome their oppressor. Allah ma'amim. Now here's what I want to

talk about. It is very easy for us 1400 years later when we hear the

stories of these miracles that took place with our beloved Prophet

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam and with the prophets that came before him to say

that had we been there we would have believed it to right away we would have

without any reservation accepted what has come to us through him

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But the journey of Al-Isra al-Miraj was different. When

the Prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam came back from that journey and in the

midst of all of the mockery and the vulnerable position that he was already

insallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that Allah took him from Makkah to Jerusalem to

the heavens and back all in one night a lot of people had a hard time with

that. Some of the Muslims wished that the Prophet's licem hadn't said that

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