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We begin by praising Allah Subhano It's a la and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him.

And we bear witness that Muhammad so Allah al-Ari-Lah al-Ari-Hazalm 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 their blessed path until the day of judgment, and we ask

Allah to make us amongst them, Allahamah Amin.

The brothers and sisters sisters there's probably been no time in our history and our own

history as individuals where we had the opportunity to create our own social circles, to create our own methods and

proportions of consumption, what we choose to bring into our lives, what we choose to read, who we choose

to interact with outside of the necessary work in family spaces.

It's an interesting time, and,

and,

we spoke last week about the collective character

and the collective decay of that character.

And there's no doubt that part of that overall nastiness

is the political atmosphere, but a pandemic that puts people for the most

part in their homes and in front of their screens all the time when we were already suffering

from a social media addiction and from an addiction to our screens makes things even more

compelling in regards to what we choose to put ourselves into and what we choose

to put into our hearts and our minds and things of that sort.

And there was a saying that, you know, I really loved a long time ago and let me just say from now it's not a

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