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Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah, the one and the unique. He it is when we worship

and it is his aid that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed and he hears the prayer

of the weak. Ask to what follows, a second and disconnected topic but it needs to be addressed

as well brothers and sisters. In the last week in this country of ours there have been

a number of cases of domestic violence that have led to the deaths of a number of our

sisters across the country in Chicago before this in Houston and in California and other

places as well and this is a sad reality and almost a taboo topic that needs to be addressed

and unfortunately it is becoming not very common but it is even one is more than enough

and even if it doesn't lead to death still the amount of abuse taking place within marriages

it needs to be addressed head on and in this few minutes that I have remaining I want to just

bring up some simple points first and foremost brothers and sisters brothers in particular

and of course abuse takes place both ways I know this but statistically statistically it is

women who are abused by their husbands more than the other way and statistically it is men who

are more battering to the women and statistically it is men who murder their partners or ex-partners

their wives or ex-wives when they want to divorce more than the other way around so this Houdba

does is not meant to neglect that it goes the other way but the emphyse should be on the default

and that's going to be the next few minutes that I'm going to do first and foremost brothers men

realize that Allah Azza wa Jalla will ask you about your relationship with your spouses and your

children the professor some said in the farewell pilgrimage Houdba to Lwada the fair he had a few

weeks left to live and he gave the largest Houdba that he ever gave in his life it's only five

paragraphs read it you all know it an entire paragraph is dedicated to protecting women one

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