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My brothers and sisters, when you were born, you did not choose which country you would be in.

You did not choose the city, the place, you did not choose your parents, you did not choose your race,

you did not choose anything. Allah chose for you. Allah decided Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala where he would like

you to be and so you were there. So let's not let it be a means of arrogance for a person.

We should realize and understand that it is all part of the greater plan of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

that certain things he does not give you a choice about. Those things Allah Almighty has decided

for reasons known to him. In fact, your parents who gave birth to you did not know you before you were

born. They had no clue, they had no idea. They just knew that they are going to have a child

once the wife was expecting or once your mother was expecting what type of a child, what is going to

happen to the child, all of that is decided only and solely by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

One of the factors that Allah has kept is and a very interesting, beautiful teaching

that your final judgment depends on how your life ends. It has very little to do with the middle

of it but it's important. As you do good and you grow older you get a reward, you pile up lots of

rewards but those who pile up rewards are of different categories. Many of them unfortunately don't

realize that they give away the good deeds that they do because of backbiting, slandering, gossiping,

deceiving, cheating, whatever else it may be. You have wronged a fellow human being, your

Salah goes to them in payment, something else goes to someone else and by the time you get to the day

of judgment you did a lot of good deeds but there's very little left. So how you ended might not be as

grand as people might have fought your life was. People look at someone say look at that saint

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