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Speaker 1: Alhamdula Alamin wassala to a Salam Alah ashari Amba Muslin

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nabiena Muhammad Alah. Early he was habihi what taburin woman

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tabi ahumbi sning ilayo mid dean, My brothers and sisters,

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we praise a loss of Hannah Allah upon all conditions,

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and we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad Salalah. He

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was seldom his household his companions. May Allah bless every

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one of us too, and protect us from all evil,

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my brothers and sisters. The first reminder, as usual, is

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the reminder to draw closeness to a loss of Hannah adah,

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to become closer to Allah as the days pass. For indeed,

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every pass day is a day closer to the day

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that we will be meeting with a loss of hannahoate Allah,

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My brothers and sisters, Calamity strikes. Difficulty was promised by

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a loss of Hannah at Allah to humankind, and a

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loss of Hannah houate Alah says he will test us,

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and he will continue to test us with various tests. However,

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a loss of hannahamate Alah has told us that he

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has favored us in ways that we will never ever know.

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He has favored us in ways we will never be

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able to gather if we were to try and count them.

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Listen to what Allah says, or indo near Matalilah in inlav. Indeed,

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if you are to count the favors of Allah upon you,

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you will never be able to count them all. And

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indeed man is not only oppressive, but ungrateful too. May

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Alla not make us from among those who are ungrateful. So,

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my brothers and sisters, in every difficulty and every hardship,

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there is always a silver lining. There is always ease.

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In fact, there is more ease than hardship in every

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difficult situation. Take a look at those, even the non believers,

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who have succeeded in this worldly life that is very temporary.

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Many times we hear of how they had failed initially,

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and as a direct result of that failure, they ended

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up in a place where they succeeded in an unimaginable way.

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Many have dropped out of colleges and then succeeded. Many

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have lost in businesses and then succeeded. Many have been

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fired from their employment and then succeeded. Wasn't this a loss?

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Of hannahuat Alah, who knew and knows the future. Always,

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may a loss of Hannah houaate Alah make it easy

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for us to comprehend and understand. We are definitely going

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through challenging times across the globe at the moment, But

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my brothers and sisters, a lot of goodness has come

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out of this. What I've learned from COVID nineteen is

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something amazing. Yes, as difficult as it is, and as

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much as it pains us to see those affected and

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to see its spreading, and to see the tall rising

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and many people losing their lives on a daily basis,

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as much as it pains us, and we keep praying

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and we keep trying, Let's look at some of the positives. Firstly,

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the favors of a love upon us are great, my

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brothers and sisters. Many people have developed a better relationship

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with Allah than ever before in their lifetimes. People have

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realized the presence of Allah, the reality of where we're heading,

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how temporary this life is, and how quickly it can

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actually be taken away. We are definitely going somewhere where.

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While Allah has told us the one who created us

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in the first place, he is the one who will

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resurrect us, and he is the one who will take

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care of us. So bahan Allah. It is something amazing.

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People are starting to ponder over the Almighty for the

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first time. Those who've never had belief, those who've been

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weak in their belief, are starting to think about the Almighty,

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starting to turn to him. People who've never prayed have

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started praying. People who've never thought about being modest are

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now taking it more seriously. People who've never thought about

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the prohibitions and why they are there have now started

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staying away from these prohibitions. Is this not, in a

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way part of the favors of a loss of hannahuate Allah.

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Let's take a look at the first point, gaining closeness

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to Allah. How many of you, and let's be honest,

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have become more conscious of Allah as a result of

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what's going on, as a result of witnessing the helplessness

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of everybody across the board, as a result of witnessing

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a virus that we cannot see with the naked eye

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spread like wildfire across the globe, how many of us

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have become closer to the Almighty, developed a consciousness upon

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levels that never was within our own hearts, minds, bodies,

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and systems. May Allah sub hannahata Allah grant us goodness.

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So every time there is a negativity, whenever we get

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closer to Allah because of that negativity in our lives,

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it is actually the favor of Allah. So hannahua to Allah.

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And this is why sometimes when we are distant from Allah,

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Allah taps us out of his love a reminder to say,

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turned to me, I am the Supreme I made you

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in the first place, I created you. I've provided the

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basics for you, and at times even more than the basics.

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You're going to come back to me. And I'm the

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one who's going to take care of you forever and ever.

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Subhanah Llah. All praise is due to Allah. Glory be

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to Allah alhamdulillah la illaha illa Llah. None is worthy

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of worship besides the Maker, the nurisher, the cherisher, the

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sustain the provider, the protector, the cure, the one in

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whose hands lies absolute control of everything in existence. Arab

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bula Alamin Allah almighty, My brothers and sisters, how many

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of us have started praying five times a day, even

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if it means simply the Pharah, that which is compulsory.

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Make no mistake more than any other act of worship.

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The Almighty loves those acts that he has made compulsory

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upon us. That's why he made these acts compulsory subhan Allah,

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because he loves them so much. So, even if we

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have started with only that which is obligatory or parah,

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we have succeeded to a great degree. And Allah's favor

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is manifest and clear. My brothers and sisters, Let's take

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a look at another favor of Allah. What I've learned

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from COVID nineteen is amazing. Many family have never spent

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time together before. It is the first time that they

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are actually connected and connecting and spending time and getting

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to know each other and sacrificing with one another. Isn't

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that a favor of Allah? Subhanahuatahana. Many have not been

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eating together as a family, and for the first time,

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they are not only eating together, but even praying together

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marcia a la tabarakala. How many of us have not

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been regular when it comes to attending the maschid, and

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now that the massajid are restricted in most countries of

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the world, how many of us are praying in congregation

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within our homes? As much as we were restricted when

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it comes to congregating in the mosques, we have now

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developed congregations within our own homes, livened up the house.

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Listen to the hadith. The prophet, Peace be upon him,

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has always told us Lah taja'alubuyu takum kuburah, don't ever

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allow your houses to degenerate into something similar to graves.

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What is meant by this is, don't let your houses

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be void of acts of worship. Praise Allah in your houses,

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Worship Allah in your houses, ask Allah's goodness in your houses,

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Engage in acts of worship in your houses, and more

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than anything else, pray. Pray in your houses. So if

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we were to pray together in our houses, we have

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for the first time understood this hadith and narration of

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the Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him, My brothers and sisters. Yes,

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a lot of patience is required when we're getting acquainted

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with our own family members. At times, people become irritated

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and agitated at their own spouses or children, or siblings

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or parents, or those whom they are living with. It's

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our time to shine to your character and conduct. Didn't

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you hear the profit piece be upon him. Say rai

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rukum rai rokum li ahlihi this you should be knowing

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off by heart by now, But it's not good to

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just know it off by heart without practicing upon it.

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The best from amongst you are those who are best

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to their family members, starting with your own spouse. So

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go out of your way. It's your time to shine.

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Smile at those you live with, look at them with

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the eyes of love and affection, mercy, goodness, help out,

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assist in the home, share the chores. For the first

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time we are able to do this. Isn't that a

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silver lining? Isn't that the ease that has come with

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this difficulty? My brothers, my sisters, Let's take a look

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at how many things have been taken for granted during

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the normal times that we had Subhanamah, we've become more

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conscious of hygiene, of cleaning up after us. Isn't that

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a favor of Allah subhanahuatlah. Yes, it should not lead

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to the point of OCD. But my brothers and sisters,

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isn't it a favor of Allah that we have become

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more conscious of cleanliness? When the prophet Mohammed, Peace be

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upon him always told us Atuhorushatrul e Maani cleanliness is

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half of your faith subhana Llah, it is a large

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portion of your faith. My brothers and sisters, haven't we

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become more conscious of Allah to the degree that we

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are taking revelation more seriously? How many of us did

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not give much time to the Pur'an revelation the Word

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of Allah, and today we're reading verses at times more

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than just a few verses. How many of us are

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improving when it comes to the quality of our recitation

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and pronunciation of the verses of the Almighty in the

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Holy porn, My brothers and sisters, for those of us

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who have not yet started that it is the Almighty

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who is giving us a chance, a favor, a loss

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of hannah hoa to Allah wants us to utilize our

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time in a very productive way, So don't waste your time.

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It is an opportunity. The ease in the difficulty is manifest.

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It is very clear how many of us are eating

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healthy meals now that which is not a simple takeaway.

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Not to say the takeaways are always bad, but at

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times we haven't had the opportunity to eat within our

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own homes. That which is cooked by our own hands

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or the hands of our loved ones. Here we have

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an opportunity. Don't forget to thank those who are serving

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you and learn to serve them in other ways. Male

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loss of hanahoa to Allah make us more conscious of

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those who have dedicated their lives for us. Isn't it

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one of the favors of Allah? When we witness entire

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humanity put aside all their differences in order to save lives.

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When humanity is being affected, then we see the reality

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of saving one another and serving one another. Isn't that

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part of the verse of a loss of hannah talah

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when he says the one who has saved a single

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life is similar to he or she who has saved

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humanity at large? Or have jeremy are How many Muslims

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have lost their lives saving the lives of other human beings,

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irrespective of their religion, their race, their nationality, et cetera.

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Is this not a favor of Allah? Does this not

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show us that life is sacred as Allah has always taught?

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How many are reaching out to the poor. I know

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of many people who are paying their employees even though

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they are not coming to work either, A full salary

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or a portion of the salary, simply because the employer

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can afford that which the employee cannot, especially in countries

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and in situations where it is a hand to mouth scenario.

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May Allah bless such people. What beautiful thoughts, what lovely gestures?

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Subhan and llah? My brothers, my sisters. Isn't this showing

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who we are and who we are supposed to be?

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How many have started feeding their neighbors and looking out

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for them. Isn't that something we learn from this COVID nineteen.

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How many have started looking out for those in need

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and reaching out to them with food hampers. It is amazing,

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my brothers and sisters. I've seen people receive food hampers

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and then share the same food hampers with others around

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them who do not have as much. Isn't that a

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show of the purity and goodness of the heart. May

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love purify our hearts even further so that we worship

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none but Him? I mean, my brothers and sisters. How

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many of us have appreciated our mothers and fathers. How

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many of us have appreciated our guardians, those whom we

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lived with. How many of us have gone out to

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seek forgiveness from those who have wronged us or whom

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we have wronged, subhan Allah, and forgiven them wholesale. Thinking

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about how short life is. Life is too short to

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hold grudges. Life is too short to hold things in

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your heart and your mind that are negative. Let go,

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Let go, and alas hanaho a to Allah will cause

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the mountain on your shoulder to come crumbling down. You

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will feel so good. How many of us have already

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done that? How many of us have purified the heart,

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like I said earlier, engaging in the recitation of the

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Qur'an and the other remembrance of Allah. As we've always said,

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those who truly believe, it is only the remembrance of

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Allah that fills the heart with contentment, nothing else. How

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many of us have developed conviction that is far stronger

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than ever before, My brothers and sisters, is that not

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a favor of Allah? Similarly, my brothers and sisters, how

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many of us have appreciated the nutrients in the home

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remedies that we have, the foods and the different types

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of spices, and all else that we have even within

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the homes. Many of us did not know the value

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of black seed before this day. Many of us did

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not appreciate prophetic medicine. Before this day, how many of

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us have started looking in to prophetic medicine with conviction

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and appreciating the fact that we were sent the greatest

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of creation. Muhammad abdillah sol la lah Ali he was seldom.

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How many have now appreciated that we are favored to

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be from the Ummah or the followers of Muhammad salaalahu Ali.

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He was seldom. Look at the remedies he has suggested

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to us, and he has asked us to take seriously

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not only the Black Sea, and not only the olive oil,

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but so many other things. Subhan Allah here of Bila

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a Lamin, I invite you, my brothers and sisters, to

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go through the prophetic medicine and see. Perhaps you may

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be suffering with an ailment, the cure of which is

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in your house, in your home, perhaps in the cover,

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but write in your kitchen. But you did not know. Subhanahmah,

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I have learned to appreciate more than ever before prophetic medicine.

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Although I was aware of it, and yes we believed

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it and practiced upon it. But the conviction has strengthened

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to degrees I've never imagined my brothers and sisters. Scores

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of people have spoken about how they've been helped in

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eradicating the symptoms of this particular virus that has taken

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the globe by storm by simply following some of the

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Sunna remedies taught by the prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him.

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How many of us now appreciate the remedies our mothers

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taught us and the older people taught us subhannah lah.

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For the first time, we're taking turmerican coriander a little

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bit more seriously than before. For the first time, we're

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looking at the medicinal properties of those things that are

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within our own stone orige in our homes. Maya la

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sub haanahua Talah make us appreciate that which is very

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accessible to us. I sit and I look at the

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hadith and the statement of the prophet Muhammed, Peace be

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upon him, wherein he says that the Almighty has always

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sent a cure before a disease has come onto the earth.

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It's only that we don't know or we haven't reached

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that particular cure. Sometimes it is right in our homes

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and we don't even know my brothers and sisters. Something

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I learned as well from COVID nineteen, when the prophet

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Muhammed Peace Be upon him tells us about protecting your

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health and giving up bad habits and never developing those

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bad habits in the first place. If we did not

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take that seriously, is this not a time when we've

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seen that he was speaking the truth all along? Sub

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hannahlah give up your small looking habits. Give up the

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drugs and the intoxicants, give up the alcohol, give up

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all that will destroy your health. Alas Hannah Ala says

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wilat fun sakum in a laha can be in kum rahim.

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He also says oula tund couldn't ilaka wah sin in

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Nullah you have scene. The first verse literally means don't

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kill yourself. Allah is indeed very merciful upon you. Not

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only does that prohibit suicide, but anything that is harmful

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and dangerous to you and your life is prohibited. Allah says,

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don't do it, don't engage in it, don't participate in it,

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even if it is in small doses. For indeed, the

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mercy of Allah is far greater. The second verse that

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I had recited, Allah is saying, don't ever throw yourselves

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into your own destruction or demise or death, and alas

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of Hannah, hot Alah continues by saying, do good asinu,

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for indeed, Allah loves those who do good. Brothers and sisters.

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We've learned all of this, more so right now with

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this issue, the disease that is spreading across the globe.

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May Allah protect us all and cause it to be

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eradicated as soon as possible. I mean, my brothers and sisters.

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Has Allah not blessed us and favored us? Yes, Allah

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has taught us different ways of praying. If you cannot

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stand and pray, you sit and pray sole ka imen

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for ill m, testop heer faka ridden for ill m,

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testoper for allah jung pray standing. If you cannot, you

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may sit down. And if you cannot do that, then

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lying down you still pray. From this we learn the

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mercy of Allah alass is fast during the month of Ramavan.

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If you are unwell, you don't need to fast. You

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can make it up later. And if you are traveling

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or you're going through hardship and difficulty and you are

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unable to fast, you may make it up perhaps outside

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the month of fasting. Isn't that the mercy of Allah?

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The same would apply when it comes to praying in

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congregation in the meschief, subhan Allah, Like I said right

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at the beginning, how many of us have started congregations

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in our own homes. Perhaps it's the favor of Allah.

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Maybe he wanted us to multiply the numbers of congregations,

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and that is what would have been of essence, Nobody

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has stopped praying, That's what I've learned. In fact, more

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people are praying, and subhan Allah alass Is won't ever

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throw yourselves into destruction. Obviously, we see the difference of

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opinion among the scholars, and what we ask the scholars

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to do during difficult times like these is to show

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solidarity by respecting the opinions of one another, even in disagreement.

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Is that not a favor of Allah. Not every country

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is going through this particular disease in the same way,

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because the magnitude of it differs from country to country.

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Some have already gone through the worst and others have

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only started. Some may never see such bad days. But

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it doesn't mean that we should not take precautions. Taking

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precautions is obviously one of the favors of Allah. He

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has granted man the intellect, and he says that you

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know what within what the Almighty has ordained, you must

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make sure that you've used your intellect, and you must

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make sure that you have taken every precaution possible to

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protect yourself. And this is why something in the Arabic

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language known as al ahdubil asbab to do that which

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would lead towards something you want to achieve. If you

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would like to earn money, well you need to get

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up and do something about it and work very hard.

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Then whatever Allah has written will come for you. But

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if you were lazy and didn't do anything, claiming that

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the Almighty is my maker, then you were foolish. You

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did not understand the plan of Allah. The same rule

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applies to taking precautions. People should not sit back and

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say this is a joke while they are seeing those

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in other countries die, being affected and even in their

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own countries. It's not a joke, my brothers and sisters.

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We must take things seriously and taking it seriously. Taking

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every precaution is part of your faith in Allah. Isn't

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that a favor of Allah? When the prophet Muhammed, Peace

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be upon him tells us to stay away from a

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person who has a contagious illness. What was he talking about.

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He was talking about these precautions. Not that it means

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your faith is weak in Allah. In fact, it is

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very strong. But taking precautions is part of understanding the

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plan of a loss of Hanahu Attilah. My brothers and sisters,

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there are so many favors of Allah that we can count.

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When it comes to COVID nineteen. The difficulties that we

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are facing, they are there. But the ease and the

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goodness that has come out and will come out far greater.

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Our lives will change forever. The way we look at

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things will change, and has already changed forever. But my

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brothers and sisters, if we have become better people, if

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we are closer to the Almighty, we've learned to reach

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out to others and appreciate the value of life and

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the opportunities that the Almighty has given us to worship Him,

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then indeed we have succeeded, My brothers and sisters, It's

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not all doom and gloom. There is so much of goodness.

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The best of man has come out. I recall at

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the beginning of the crisis, a lot of people, unfortunately

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were overtaken by panic and they went into what was

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known as panic buying. But very quickly, as this spread rapidly,

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they began to share what they had, and sharing is

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definitely caring for Indeed, when you share goodness with someone,

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the Almighty will care for you. Like we've heard before,

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Colonel la hufion In Abdi, my colonel abdu Viaoni Akihi,

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Allah continues to help his slave for as long as

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that slave continues to help another. So, my brothers and sisters,

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have we not seen people give hope to others, reach

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out to others with the good word, make them smile,

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be charitable? Is all this not part of the good

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that has come out of the situation. So Hannah, Allah,

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I ask you to speak to people, giving them good guidance,

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giving them good words, words of positivity. The world needs

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to be positive at the moment. We need to have hope,

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hope in the mercy of Allah, Hope in the greatness

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of Allah su Hannahua tah Hannah. He will intervene. He

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has intervened, He shall intervene. There are people who've been

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through worse than this in history, and they've come out.

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The difference here is today, reaching the east from the

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west would take you no more than a day. And

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for that reason, this virus has spread like never before.

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And this is why we say we are in it together.

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Because we are in it together. We've got to take

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this seriously with the mercy of Allah, with the help

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from Allah, using whatever capacity has been bestowed upon us

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by Allah. Whatever restrictions that need to be put in

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place in sha Allah, will be over this very very soon.

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Learned to speak to people, giving them hope, encouraging them,

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praying for them, and do that which is definitely filled

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with wisdom, do that which is responsible. My brothers and sisters,

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May alas sub Hannah Alah bless every one of us

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aslaah nabina mouhammadatu