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that there is no Lord, no creator, no sustainer, no deity worthy of worship other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

and a bear witness and a testify that Muhammad Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam is his final prophet

and his most perfect worshipper and our role model in this dunya and our intercessor on the day of judgment.

As to what follows, remember O Muslims that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has commanded us to be conscious of him

when he says in the Quran,

Dear Muslims, of the realities of our lives is that each and every one of us is tested and tried by other people in our lives.

Each and every one of us faces hardships and wrongdoings caused unjustly by the people in our own lives.

Whether they are family, sometimes even our immediate family are parents and children or our siblings or our cousins and uncles

or they are friends or they are acquaintances and colleagues or they're even strangers.

Every human being at multiple times in his or her life finds that their rights are being taken away from them.

Either an actual physical right, maybe inheritance, maybe a money that is due to them, maybe something that was rightfully theirs

or their honor is mocked or they are transgressed against in many different ways

and such is the reality of our existence. There is no human being ever who has been safe from the problems and trials of other human beings.

So in today's brief khutbah, I want to remind myself in all of you what should be our stance as Muslims when others wrong us,

when we feel an injustice has occurred, when people have trampled against us, they have gone against what we believe is our hack, our due.

What does our Sharia remind us? Firstly, brothers and sisters, we contextualize what is happening and we understand that being tested by the hands of other people around us is one of the integral mechanisms of Allah's tests on us.

Allah uses the tests and trials through other people to test you.

Realize just like that person is being tested in what he or she has done against you, so too Allah is testing you in your response to that person.

It is your test just as much as it is is. Allah reminds us in the Qur'an.

We have made each of you a test and trial of others. Each one of you will be tested by and be tests for other people.

There is no such thing as a human existence that is free from the tests and trials of other human beings.

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