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Risking It All For What You Believe In - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf | Confident Muslim
“My beliefs are more important than anything. If I have to give up basketball, I will.”
During the 1995-96 season, Denver Nuggets player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand during the National Anthem as a form of peaceful political protest. As a result, he lost his career. Abdul-Rauf speaks about his experience and how Islam and his conviction kept him motivated and steadfast, despite the backlash. Check out his new documentary released on Showtime called, "Stand".
Confident Muslim by Yaqeen Institute is a platform which highlights everyday Muslims making a positive impact in society, inspired by their faith. Each year, Yaqeen awards the Muhammad Ali Confident Muslim award to one presenter. Muhammad Ali represents an individual who combined conviction with contribution and touched the world. We hope to inspire a generation of confident Muslims to follow in those footsteps.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Before we bring up our brother Mahmoud, I just wanted to say a few words about him. And many of you might not remember, I'd assume at least half of this hall might not remember, in the 1990s, before Black Lives Matter, before Colin Kaepernick, before social media, before it was popular to take a stand against some of the actions of the United States government, SubhanAllah, there was this one brother who was willing, in the midst of the Gulf War, to take a stand against US militarism. And I know him from Louisiana. He went to LSU. He was Chris Jackson at the time. And Alhamdulillah, through reading the autobiography of Malcolm X, found his way to Islam. And took this stance, this honorable stance, against US militarism that we had never seen before. And I want you all who have seen the way that Colin Kaepernick was exiled from the NFL, yet had popular support, to think about a man who really faced the brunt of anger from the political establishment in the United States, from the NBA, and even from his fellow players. It was not a popular stance. And it reminds me of the hadith of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, where he says, Man tawad'a, whoever lowers himself for Allah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will elevate him. Decades later, you have a new Showtime documentary that will be coming out, InshaAllah Ta'ala, in 2023. You have Colin Kaepernick who is openly crediting Mahmoud Abdel Rauf for being the person that gave him the inspiration to take the stand that he took. You have players around the league, the superstars today, saying that he was the superstar before we were the superstars.
And you have an entire country now, Alhamdulillah, that's coming to realize the profound stance that he took. And he did this at the time, and he does this today, and he says that it is his Islam, it is his religion, that forces him to take a principled stance in this day and age in the face of such a brutal machine. And so InshaAllah Ta'ala, we would like to present this year's Muhammad Ali Confident Muslim Award to brother Mahmoud Abdel Rauf. I'd like to welcome brother Mahmoud Abdel Rauf, InshaAllah Ta'ala, our 2022 Muhammad Ali Confident Muslim of the Year. I'll take this off for you here, InshaAllah. You're tall. As-salamu alaykum. Alhamdulillah. It's a pleasure to be here in front of you. First, let me just begin by thanking Allah, and I pray that Allah will continue for all of us to open up the doorways to Jannah, to guide our steps. You know, Allah is the fashion of reality. We pray that he will continue to nourish us in the ingredients of this deen to always be a voice and an example, you know, for what he pushes us towards, InshaAllah. This is special.
Let me say this, Muhammad Ali set the bar, I mean he raised the bar very high for us, not just in the field of athletics, but also not only in the ring, but also outside of the ring. And even as a young man, not just myself, but millions of people aspired to be like him. You know, his skill level was just immaculate. His quickness, his footwork, the way he thought, you know, the fighting game. And we as athletes, you know, I'm a basketball player, but we strove to be like him in our respective fields, in our respective sports. But even in his own sport, you know, by creating these little games in our neighborhoods of these homemade boxing matches that we would have with each other. And then this fighting, you know, what do you call it, shadow boxing, you know, doing all of that stuff. And, you know, because this is the impact that he had on us, you know, even when he would lose, we would be in tears, like somebody died in our family because of what he represented, not only in the sport of boxing, but equally so, if not more, just the person that he was. We tried to emulate that. We wanted to be, you know, in so many ways like Muhammad Ali. And just talking about it makes me tear up.
Because he represented a person that, you know, his faith, his conviction, you know, his wit, his poetry, his courage, you know, his being oriented towards justice, you know. And he did all of this, I think, from a place of love, you know, because you can't sustain this type of commitment to Islam and this commitment to humanity if you don't have love in your heart. And he showed that time and time again. And it reminds me of a saying, I don't know who coined the phrase that justice is what love looks like in public, right. Because he always was fighting for that irrespective of a person's faith, irrespective of a person's nationality, irrespective of a person's race. And it kind of reminds me also of what Huey P. Newton in one of his books, what I mean, his book, Revolutionary Suicide mentions, you know, about the difference between revolutionary suicide and reactionary suicide. Basically giving your life for something. And he said it's not that we have a death wish, he said it's quite the opposite. He said it's that we have such a desire to live with peace and dignity that the existence without it is impossible. And so I think when I think about, you know, Muhammad Ali and the impact that he had, because this confident award is named after him. Because of all of that, it just means, you know, for me that much more. That I would be honored, you know, we seek our reward from Allah, you know, ultimately.
But it's really nice when your peers and when people in your faith can see something in you, even though we may at times agree to disagree of our worth. But they can see something in you that makes you think of, you know, this type of person and representing this type of faith. So I'm deeply honored and I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart by Allah to you for recognizing me for this prestigious award. So again, I want to thank you. Alhamdulillah. You know, I grew up in Mississippi about seven hours, I think, seven, seven and a half hours away from here. And I grew up in a Christian background and I grew up also with a disorder, Tourette's syndrome. And I wasn't diagnosed until the 11th grade. And I was always taught the value of prayer and praying for someone, praying for others more than you pray for yourself. You know, and by doing so, moving toward what you're praying for. And there's a greater chance if you do that, that your prayers will be answered. But along the way, as a young man, I had questions. And oftentimes these questions that I had, I would get two responses. That you just got to believe or you can't question God. And that disturbed me as a young man. Fast forwarding as the years progressed. And I prayed a lot. I prayed religiously. I prayed when I was walking. I prayed on my knees. I prayed, I mean, constantly. And as the years progressed, I ended up going to LSU. And I'm going to fast forward. Skip a lot.
Dale Brown, the coach of LSU, gave me the autobiography of Malcolm X. And I never heard of who Malcolm was up to that point, sadly. And I began to read his story. And this is kind of in line with also the likes of Muhammad Ali and what he was able to exemplify in his character and in his voice. But Malcolm just fascinated me with the person that he was. You know, how he thought. His fearlessness. You know, his courage. How he stood up for issues and didn't seem to care what anybody, anyone thought. And why that was important for me was because I grew up in the South. You know, I was born in 1969, so I grew up in the 70s and 80s. And I remember vividly as a child, and I would see the relationships that existed between whites and blacks. And I couldn't put my finger on it, right, but I knew something wasn't right with this picture that I was seeing. And it disturbed me. But I was also brought up in a society where you're taught, you know, just play the game, keep your mouth shut. Right. This is just the way things are. And I noticed early that it was just when I would keep my mouth shut, when I would be silent, it bothered me. It bothered me internally. It was just hard for me to sleep. And I just felt, even at that age, I just felt like a coward. And I didn't like the way that felt. And I would always pray to God, please put me in a position to where I could be a voice for people. Where I could stand up for myself. Where I could say what I think and what I feel, regardless of the consequences.
And seeing the likes of a Muhammad Ali, learning about a Malcolm, looking at these examples, right, began to, over time, and I think this is why it's so important, the power of storytelling. Right. The power of association. The things that, you know, the stories that we tell ourselves, the things that we're associated with, because the more we do that, we find that there's going to be, there's strength in those things. And so, to make a long story short, I ended up, as I'm looking at his life, and I'm thinking about my life growing up in the South, and the things that I went through, these were personalities, I'm like, man, I want to be like that. I want to have that type of strength. Right. To stand up, regardless if people accept it or not, to stand up for what I believe in. Whatever the consequences are. And so I ended up, you know, by Allah, through reading the autobiography of Malcolm, embracing Islam after my first year in the NBA. And I joke about that now, because you spend most of your life, you know, waking up in the morning, like literally, I was waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning, and I'm on the court at 5. And I'm talking about thunder and lightning, you're talking about freezing, coming home with frostbitten hands. I wanted success so bad, I'm like, man, I gotta make it. You know, I gotta make it. So, I joke, but I say, Allah, why did you wait till I get to the NBA, and I'm making all of this bread for me to become conscious. Right. And I joke, I'm so great, I don't have any regrets whatsoever. But everything happens for a reason. You know, Allah sends you where he wants you at a timing of his choice.
But, and I'm saying this, those things for me, that was huge. You know, growing up with a mother with an 8th grade education, you taught, as I said before, you know, I would see my parents when they had to confront white people, their head would be down, right, very soft spoken, like they couldn't say what was on their mind, but in private, boy, they'd be bold, right, and courageous, and saying all of this stuff. And I found myself doing the same thing as a young child, and I said, I don't like the way this feels, I need to step out of this, I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I need to step out of it. And so, if it wasn't for those types of people, like the Muhammad Ali, like the Malcolm X's that led me to Islam, and then you're reading the stories about the prophet, right, and well, Allah says, stand up for justice, even if it's against yourself, right, all of these things that you're constantly, and then meeting people on the road, Muslims, coming on the road, and my best education was by traveling, and every city I went to, Muslims would come to the hotel, and we would find ourselves up 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, just talking, just talking about life, society, politics, they're introducing me to books and authors that I'd never heard before in my life, now I'm reading like I've never read before, and as I'm reading, and I'm associated with these people, as Allah says, being the company of the righteous, right, there's benefits in those things, they've done studies, they said if you're trying to gain weight, I mean if you're trying to be in shape, hang around people that's in shape, if you're trying to be moral, hang around moral people, if you're trying to be an activist, hang around activists, why? There's a conversation, it's a lifestyle, there's a pattern in their conversations, there's a pattern in their behavior, that you're constantly surrounded by, and eventually it's going to rub off, and so this is what I began to do,
and the more that I began to be in these circles, I started developing strength, and the more that I began to become a little bit more knowledgeable, I began to share, and you realize when you share information, oftentimes, there's a lot of people that think just like you, and then there's another level to that, as you're sharing, you're like, you know what, now you start developing confidence, and then the confidence eventually turns into courage, like I got to do something with this information, as Allah says, don't be like a donkey with books on your back, you got all this information, what you going to do with it? And so these are the things that I'm thinking about daily, people don't know that when I was in the league, I would, how many of you have heard of the message, the life of the prophet, the movie, Battle of Algiers, Line of the Desert, I used to take these movies with me on the road, when I was a Muslim, and then we had this huge, I'm telling my age, huge VCR, portable, it was like this big, and I would stick my little VCR in the machine, I'm in a hotel, and I'm watching these movies, I'm getting hyped, but also I used to have this VCR about the war in Chechnya, and they were showing gruesome images of Muslims being blown up, their private parts being dismembered, and I'm watching this, and people don't know, I'm reading all of this stuff, about what's going on in the world, but also I'm looking at these images, and even though I wasn't there, and I couldn't be there, so to speak, my heart was always, always trying to stay connected, because there's a tendency sometimes, when you're in the limelight, and you have the fame, and you have the wealth, for those things to become a distraction for you, this is why it was important for me to stay in those circles, Muhammad Ali would talk about that a lot also,
staying in those circles, Malcolm X, so I would look at these videos, and I would come to the game, and before the jump ball, you know how you greet the opponent, I'm not a person that mean mugs, I shake your hand, have a good game, but in my mind, and in my heart, I'm looking at you, you don't know I'm looking at you like this, but I'm looking at you like, you're the reason why we're going through what we're going through in the Muslim world, and in order for me to get justice, I got to annihilate you, literally, I got to kill you out here, I got to dominate you, and this was my way of staying connected, staying grounded, like I'm always picking these little things to motivate me, whether basketball, the same, you have those things, I'm thinking about my mom, I'm thinking about helping people, I'm thinking about people that get you up in the morning, so the same, with your Islamic responsibilities, you got to constantly stay connected to these stories, which is why an organization like Yaqeen, the think tank, the research, is so important, because these things constantly, because a lot of us, we don't feel we have the time, and there are people that's doing this research, we can just go to it, go to that paper, we can look it up, and it's right there, and can help guide us through what we're going through and our understanding of things, so I can keep going on and on, but for me, there's a couple of things that stay with me, there's so many, but I want to leave you with this, and this is what keeps me going, among so many others, there's a famous Hadith that I know we're all familiar with, it says, no one, don't let me forget now, I say this Hadith all the time,
whoever begins their day, and they're not concerned with the affairs of the Muslims, or some would say, because Islam is just not about what affects us, but what affects humanity, whoever begins their day, and they're not concerned with the affairs of humanity, they're not of this Ummah, right, and it's imperative that we stay connected, there's so much that's happening in the world today, and I know we all know it, and the more we stay connected, the more we keep telling these stories, the stronger we'll become, I really believe this from the bottom of my heart, and George Washington Carver says something, he says, no one has the right to come into this world, and leave it, without leaving behind distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it, you know, we all should be trying to find out what type of legacy do we want to leave, right, you know, when it's all said and done, and for me, there's no greater legacy than the legacy of being connected to this dean, and always pushing toward issues of justice. and fairness, and equity, and equality, so may Allah reward you, thank you for this award, it's very special to me, and please, as much as possible, continue to support Yaqeen Institute, I love you, Salam alaykum. MashaAllah, Takbir, Takbir, SubhanAllah, first of all, we have to correct our brother Shaq, MashaAllah, he's a Muslim, you know, Mahmoud is a servant of God, right, but to see the, I think, the admiration that people have for you, not just on the court, but really off the court, and SubhanAllah, to see it come full circle,
a lot of times it takes time for people to recognize what they're seeing, and when Muhammad Ali, Rahim Allah, passed away, there were so many people that were praising him, that were the same people that were at the forefront of criticizing him, and people forget, he was one of the most hated men in the country at some point, for you to have taken that stand, I think that the question that I would ask, can you point to a moment where you found something in your deen, in your faith, and you said, you know what, it's worth it, a moment when you're reading the Quran, a moment when you're making dua, where you found something in your faith, that you felt like, there is no way I'm going to relinquish this, even if the whole world stands against me. That's a great question. No, I can't think of one particular moment, it's just, I remember before I was a Muslim, the first day I picked up the Quran, and there was this guy named Mark James, we were very close, and Islam came up in conversation, and so we went to the masjid, to make a long story short, came back, I was excited, and I picked it up, two, three pages later, and I can't remember the actual verses, but I remember to this day the way it made me feel, and that feeling has never left, and I remember looking across the table after reading two, three pages, I looked at him, I said, I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a Muslim, my search is over, and I was once asked, I said, well, what is it about Islam that attracts you? I said, from the first day until now, every time I pick up the Quran and engage it, it never fails to satisfy my curiosity and to answer my questions, on any issue. So, I hope that's my answer. What happens to you, when you're in that moment, and you're seeing,
I mean, I think at that time, it wasn't just non-Muslims turning their back on you, this is a climate in which even Muslims are saying, no, no, he doesn't represent us, we stand for the national anthem, we're proud Muslims, proud American Muslims. What does that do for you in terms of your personal connection, your dua, your prayer, and finding from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that strength? What would you say to someone that feels that sense of peer pressure, and feels that sense of loneliness and abandonment, and how you connect to dua in those moments? You know, I always knew that even though we're all Muslim, we don't all think the same. You know, we're not a monolith on everything, on every issue. So, I understood that there was going to be differences of opinions. For me, I never allowed that to create in me this sense of, because the media is great trying to divide and conquer, even when Hakeem, my dear brother, said what he said about, we follow the laws of the land and people try to make a big deal of that. I was always, look, that's my brother, you know, X, Y, and Z. And plus, you never know the full extent of the interview. You know, they do a lot of chopping, and cutting, and editing. But, I can't remember yet. My mind is in... In your heart. How would you help someone feel? You know, for me, how would I help someone? For me, it's always been, and I was fortunate to be around a group of a lot of Muslims, and just the value of constantly engaging the Quran. You know, the blueprint is the Quran. And for me, it's just, that's where the answers are. And just seeking those answers. And once you find them, owning them.
You know, owning them fully. And not that you're not going to come across something that could increase that understanding. But for me, once, unless you can tell me something and convince me, I'm going to stick to it. I'm going to stick to it regardless. Yeah. Yeah. Can you tell me about how Colin Kaepernick, you know, mashallah, I think he had you write the foreword to his book, right? Or he's got, he cited you as an example in regards to the stance that he took. What's that relationship like between you and him? And when's our brother taking shahada? That's a good question. I don't know, mashallah. I know he's in contact with a Muslim sister that he sees. But, you know, we had a great conversation the first time we met in Oakland, from a mutual friend named Hashim. We spoke for about an hour. And we never gave each other advice, because there's a tendency with athletes, you know, you don't have a mind of your own. Somebody had to tell you what to do. So we just shared information. And what I said resonated with him and vice versa. We just took it. But he said something that stuck with me. He said this is the most free that he's ever felt in his life. And that's what enabled him to be able to do what he did. Yeah, as far as the Muslim piece, only Allah knows. Next year we'll have him as a confident Muslim, inshallah to Allah, if you can work your magic, inshallah. Inshallah. I'm not going to hold you too long, inshallah to Allah. But really, I mean, you know, you gave up your NBA career. You gave up a lot of this dunya. And a lot of people probably look at that and wonder, was it really worth it? And are there – you know, what do you say to someone like that, right?
You know, does it ever get to you that you turned your back on being the most celebrated player in the league? You know, someone that was just on the up and up. And when people say the Steph Curry before the Steph Curry and what could have been? Or do you just look towards, inshallah to Allah, what the reward is going to be from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and derive strength from that? That's the main thing for me. And I know it sounds cliche and it sounds good. But literally, I could care – when I became a Muslim, there were people saying, look, man, what about endorsements? I said, I can care less about endorsements. You know, I'm concerned about my relationship with Allah. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. But that's the most important thing to me. And I don't look at it as – I really don't look at it as a loss. You know, Allah sends us where he wants us to be for reasons. You know, and I look at it, look, man, I've – you know, one of my goals in life was not to be that – I made a commitment. I want to live and die with a free conscience and a free soul, whether people like it or not. And so when you look at the history of prophets, Allah says about the prophets of Islam that this message almost broke his back. They went through way more than we would ever go through. So this is just part and parcel of, you know, trying to live according to your faith. These are the outcomes. So I don't look at it as a loss. I look at it as a gain. If I'm gaining more of a connection with Allah, what can be better than that? You know, yeah, so ma sha Allah. I got one more question for you, insha Allah, and it's more of an advice. You know, alhamdulillah, you got a lot of young Muslims in here, and they're looking at you and their eyes got big because they were born after the 1990s, and they didn't realize who you were until they watched the Showtime trailer. And a lot of people are going to learn about you, insha Allah, ta'ala, when that documentary comes out, insha Allah, on Showtime. Bid'nillahi ta'ala, your name and your example will be known to a lot of people that might not have known about it before. But to the young Muslims in the room that feel a lot of peer pressure being a Muslim in America post-9-11,
some of them weren't even around or they don't even remember 9-11, but they feel the pressure of being Muslim, and they feel at times this necessity to relinquish part of their Muslimness in order to fit in. What are some words of encouragement you could give to those young Muslims in the room who are looking at you and wondering how you gave it all up for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? I'm a firm believer, and I said a little bit of it in the speech. I think, you know, when we talk about Islam as the blueprint, all throughout the Quran, Allah tells us how to develop confidence, how to develop courage, how to do all those things. And so when I look at even the verse where Allah says, be in the company of the righteous, right? The more we associate with the right types of people, we're around the right type of information, it rubs off. And you develop the confidence, you develop the courage to stand your ground. And that's what did it for me. And the more you do that, you will find that people will end up respecting you for it. Yeah, there's going to be rough spots, you're going to be challenged, that's with everything. But I found that when it was all said and done, man, people, they look at you, they approach you differently. You know, I remember Bernie Bickerstaff would come into the locker room sometimes, and he would grab people's head and play with them. He would go down the line, and then he would come to me. Because the way you carry yourself, you know, and then the conversations are going to be different. And so you just have to stay the course. You have to own it, you have to embrace it. And the more consistent you are, people will eventually turn, and they'll begin to, you know, respect us. I'd rather, if I had a choice between you liking me or respecting me, respect me. Yeah, I want you to respect me, first and foremost. What a line, mashaAllah. If I had a choice between people liking me or respecting me, I'll choose respect anytime.
You know, there's a hadith from the Prophet ﷺ, من أرض الناس بصخة الله Whoever pleases the people by displeasing Allah, Allah will be displeased with them, and Allah will cause the people to be displeased with them. But whoever pleases Allah by displeasing the people, Allah will be pleased with them, and Allah will cause the people to be pleased with him as well. SubhanAllah, we saw that your life is literally a testimony to that, that here we are, three decades later, and now they're celebrating you, after they made you a demon in this country, vilified you in this country, and now, alhamdulillah, rabbil ameen, the respect is there. But as we said, we love you and we're proud of you, and congratulations once again on the award, and jazakAllah khair for coming down and being with us tonight. Everyone, inshaAllah ta'ala, please give one more round of applause for brother Mahmood. InshaAllah ta'ala, with that, we're going to go ahead and conclude the evening. And once again, jazakAllah khair to all of you. I just need one more commitment from you all. How many of you will be at the banquet next year, inshaAllah? Can I see hands? Dr. Altaf, are you going to be at the banquet next year, inshaAllah? InshaAllah, alright. InshaAllah ta'ala, we pray that you'll continue to be with us every year. Oh, mashaAllah, so just to update on the funds, before I make dua, hold the dua. Allahu Akbar, takbir, takbir, mashaAllah. So we're at 835,000. And to honor, oh, you want to go ahead and raise the rest? My flight is at Fajr, no joke. But inshaAllah ta'ala, to honor, I think, Dr. Ammar, you raised the bar for us. SubhanAllah, we came in here and our goal was 500,000. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you and bless everyone who contributed. But to honor that, inshaAllah, my request to everyone is that video that you saw,
the end of year video, it's going to go live inshaAllah ta'ala soon. Share it with your circles and try to raise, inshaAllah ta'ala, and let's hope that we can hit that amount from this room, bismillah ta'ala. And we ask you to keep on coming back, inshaAllah, and we thank you for your support. I'm going to make a dua, inshaAllah ta'ala, that we can conclude with, inshaAllah ta'ala. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira. Rabbana la tu'akhidhna innasina aw akhta'na. Rabbana wa la tahmil alayna isran kama hamaltahu ala lathina min qablina. Rabbana wa la tuhammilna ma la taqatalana bih. Wa'afu anna wa khfir lana wa arhamna. Anta mawlana fan surna ala alqawmin kafirin. Rabbana la tuziq qulubana ba'da idh hadaytana. Wahab lana min ladunka rahma. Innaka anta alwahab. Rabbana innaka jami'un nasi li yawmin la rayba fih. Inna Allaha la yukhlifu almi'ad. Allahumma yaa mukallibal quloob thabbit quloobana ala deenik. Oh Allah we ask you to guide our hearts and to guide other hearts through our hearts. We ask you oh Allah to rectify our condition and to rectify the condition of others through us. We ask you oh Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we ask you to use us for this deen. We ask you not to replace us with anyone else. Ya Allah, use us in whatever capacity is best for us in our Akhirah. Ya Allah, use us in whatever capacity is best for us in our Akhirah. Ya Allah, do not let us be amongst those who are deluded or who are replaced. Ya Allah, do not let us be amongst those who are misguided or discarded. Ya Allah, Ya Allah, even if it is just our Dua, Ya Allah we ask you to accept our Dua. Ya Allah, we ask you to uplift the condition of Islam and the Muslims all over the world. We ask you to uplift the condition of Humanity through Islam and the Muslims all over the world.
Ya Allah, we ask you to support the oppressed wherever they are. We ask you to use us to support the oppressed wherever they are. Ya Allah, we ask you to make us worthy of this beautiful Deen, the beautiful Dau'a of Islam. We ask you to accept our efforts despite our shortcomings our shortcomings and to enter us into paradise despite our sins. Ya Allah, we ask you to remove any grudges, any ill will, anything between us that divides our hearts. Ya Allah, unite our hearts and connect them to you. Ya Allah, unite our ranks and connect us to you. Ya Allah, we ask you to allow us to leave this gathering amongst those who are accepted, amongst those who are forgiven. Ya Allah, do not let us leave with any sin left upon us. Ya Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon His Messenger and his family and companions. Jazakum Allah Khairan. Subhana Allah wa hamdika ashhadu an la ilaha ila anta astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.
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