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Salatu wa Salamu ala ashrafi lambya wa al-Marsalin

Nabina Muhammad wa Alaa Ali wa sahbihajmain

Complete blessings and salutations upon Muhammad Salallahu alaihi wa sallam

his entire household

All his companions may Allah bless them all and bless every single one of us. I mean my brothers and sisters a beautiful occasion of Jumah

Here in this beautiful messaged in this suburb of Arcadia in the beautiful country or city of Harare in the country of Zimbabwe

We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for giving us the blessed opportunity to be seated here in peace

And it is our duty to uphold this peace and it is our duty to ensure that it remains

This peace will only be able to be prevalent if we are at peace ourselves

And if we understand where we came from where we are right now and where we are heading

You and I know that there are xenophobic attacks happening in South Africa as we speak

It is absolutely unacceptable and the root goes back

Not only to racism or reverse racism as it may be called

But it goes back to the lack of understanding of who human beings actually are where we came from and

How and why we are different and this answer is given by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran

In Surat al-Hajurat Allah says oh mankind we have created you

Oh mankind we have created you you are not just a coincidence

You are not just here by chance you did not just come about to be by nature

Allah says we made you we created you there is a purpose and there is a certain way within we created you

So in some verses Allah makes mention of the purpose of creation and in other verses Allah makes mention of the method of creation

So the verse that I just recited or began

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