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and she struggled to get through it and there was an elder Muslim sister that had been Muslim her entire life that started to cry very heavily as well.

And she said that I'm crying because I've been saying la ilaha illa Allah, mahamid al-rasubullah for over 60 years and I never cried.

La ilaha illa Allah, mahamid al-rasubullah never brought me the tears.

And this person is saying it for the very first time and it's bringing them to tears.

And you wonder and you say Subhanallah, where is that excitement?

Or perhaps you are a convert to Islam and you remember those moments and you go back and you think, well I want to feel that way again.

Or you had moments in Ramadan or moments in your life where you really feel like you peaked in terms of your faith.

Every single one of us in here can at some point look back and feel like there was a time that they felt closest to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

Either it was in the midst of a tragedy, I may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help all of those that are in the midst of that tragedy right now.

I mean, or it was during a heightened faith awareness, iman awareness because of what you were reading or listening to or the season of height that you were in, of good that you were in, perhaps or omra or hedge, perhaps Ramadan.

But there is a time when you felt like your faith peaked, like I was really where I wanted to be.

I felt my heart was soft, I felt that it was easier for me to connect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And sometimes you want it back and to want it back is a good sign.

To be okay with not feeling like you are at your full potential in terms of your heart's connection to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is a bad sign.

To be like, well that's alright, I've already relegated faith to a certain part of my life and I don't care about that part.

But to say, you know, I really wish I could feel that way again and I really wish I could connect that way again.

And I was thinking about really this incredible narration about Abu Bakr al-Saddiqr al-Diyallahu ta'ala anhu.

And I want to preface the narration with reminding all of us about who Abu Bakr al-Diyallahu anhu is.

Abu Bakr is the man who would read Quran and would not just be moved so much with his own heart that he had a difficult time reading the Quran without crying.

But he would force everyone else to cry as well.

Two incidents that are very famous, in fact, one of them is when Abu Bakr was on his way out to Abbasinia to make Hijra and a man stopped him and on Muslim chief and said,

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