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We begin by praising Allah Subhanoa

to Allah. We bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him.

And we bear witness that Muhammad

so Allah alahah al-Iahiliu is his final messenger.

We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him.

The prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him and those that follow in his blessed path until the day of judgment.

And we ask Allah to make us amongst them.

Allah Ma' Amin.

Dear brothers and sisters, as we look to the world today and we look to the state of the

Muslims and how we approach both our individual affairs as well as our community affairs.

There is a mindset of accepted defeat and what I mean by

accepted defeat is that Allah Subhana has decreed for us test and trial and Allah Subhana has decreed for us

hardship and we accept that hardship and we do not know when the ease will come but in sha law

Allah will reward us in the hereafter so when it comes to our individual efforts we

approach the dean with our Iba Dats, and we don't put in our

full effort at times because we know at the end of the day, Allah will accept it and Allah will

make something happen out of it.

And on a community level, a lot of times when we look at the situation

as we do with our brothers and sisters in Kuzza.

May Allah Subhano It's all, give them victory. Allahh Allah I mean or we look to the various causes of the

uma we think to ourselves well we're doomed to fail we're doomed to a bad

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