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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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Optimism.

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Optimism is a feeling of the heart.

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Its motivation is having a good opinion of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic.

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It stems from knowing Allah, the Exalted.

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And knowing His most beautiful names.

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And His sublime attributes.

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For His names, glory be to Him—

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The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

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The Kind, the Benign,

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The Powerful, the Almighty,

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And other names of majesty and beauty—

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Yield the fruit of hope in Him, glory be to Him,

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And a good opinion of Him,

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And the realization that His relief is near,

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And that with hardship comes ease.

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The believer who knows his Lord,

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And His most beautiful names,

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Will never allow into his heart

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Pessimism, despair, or frustration,

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No matter how intense the trial becomes,

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Or how much falsehood spreads at any

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Given time.

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We have in the Messenger of Allah,

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Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the perfect example.

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For here he is, saying

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To Khabbab Ibn al-Aratt, may Allah be pleased with him,

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When he complained

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To him about the torture of the polytheists,

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And asked for victory

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During the Meccan period:

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"By Allah, this matter will surely be perfected,

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Until a traveler journeys

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From San'a to Hadramawt,

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Fearing none but Allah,

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And the wolf for his sheep;

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But you are a people

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Who are impatient."

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Narrated by al-Bukhari.

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And here is the Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

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During the Battle of the Trench,

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When the disbelievers gathered against them,

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And attacked Medina

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From all its sides,

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And the Muslims were shaken with a

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Severe shaking.

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He was broadcasting hope and optimism

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Regarding the triumph of this religion over Persia

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And Rome.

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He would say while striking with the pickaxe:

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"Allahu Akbar!

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I have been given the keys of al-Sham.

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Allahu Akbar!

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I have been given the keys of Persia."

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The intensity of the trial

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Is the prelude to victory,

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Just as the

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Companions of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, understood,

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When Allah said about them:

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"And when the

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Believers saw the confederates..."

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“And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22)

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Allah and His Messenger,

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And Allah and His Messenger spoke the truth,

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And it increased them only in

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Faith and submission.

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Among the signs of optimism

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That herald the nearness of victory

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In our time:

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First,

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The narratives from the verses and hadiths

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That contain the promise of Allah,

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Almighty and Majestic, regarding the triumph of this religion

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Over all the earth, over all religions,

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And the conquest of

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Constantinople and Rome.

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It is the promise of Allah; Allah does not fail

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To fulfill His promise,

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But most people

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Do not know.

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Second,

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The global and local return

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To this religion,

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And the entry of groups of disbelievers into it,

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And the repentance of many

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Of the children of the Ummah and their guidance.

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Third,

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The need of humanity today,

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As it lives in this misery,

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For a savior,

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And there is no savior for it except the religion of Islam,

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The religion of innate nature, reason,

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And knowledge.

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Fourth,

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The decline of the West and its regression,

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And the inciting of the disbelievers

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Against one another,

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So that they may exhaust each other,

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Along with what their countries are witnessing

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Of economic and moral collapse,

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And disasters,

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And divine punishments.

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Fifth,

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The preservation of the religion of Islam

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From human interventions

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That tampered with corrupted creeds

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And distorted them;

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For it is the religion of Allah that is destined to prevail.

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Sixth,

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The awakening that the Muslims are witnessing,

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And the strength of the sense of resistance,

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As they see the conflict

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Between truth and falsehood,

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Where many aspects

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Of the truth have been revealed

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That they were not aware of,

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And many aspects of falsehood

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That they were ignorant of,

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And were ignorant of what

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Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, informed us of

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Regarding the enmity and hatred of the disbelievers.

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Likewise, those who belong to the truth,

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From among the callers and the mujahidin,

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Their commitment to it has strengthened,

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As has their enthusiasm for supporting it,

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And sacrificing for the sake of Allah,

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Almighty and Majestic.

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Seventh,

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The reaching of injustice, arrogance, and corruption

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By the enemies of the religion to their peak,

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From among the disbelievers and hypocrites,

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And nothing remains but for the promise of Allah, glory be to Him,

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To be fulfilled against them

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With destruction and eradication,

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And the empowerment of the believers,

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“And that Allah may prove those who believe, and may blight the disbelievers.” (3:141)

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And He destroys the disbelievers.