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That unbearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him.

We bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his final messenger.

We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him, his family, companions and those that follow

until the day of judgment. We ask Allah to make us amongst them.

Allah Mu'amin. Dear brothers and sisters, in the beginning of this week, two people that are

very close to me lost their mothers. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have mercy on them and accept

them into his jannah. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow them to feel comfort and to achieve

the reward through patience. Allah Mu'amin. And as you're talking to someone that is

burying a loved one, it's very hard to convey any type of hope that's left in this world.

And all of us that have been there with burying a loved one can relate to that. That how do you

say to someone that there is any type of hope or replacement left in this world?

But for most of us, that type of replacement in this world does not come. And what's usually left

is a great void. And if you don't treat that void properly, then what it could do is it could

deplete you to where you do not pursue happiness in this life or the next. But instead, you just

kind of shut off. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have mercy on our loved ones and may Allah subhanahu

ta'ala gather us with them around the beloved sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Allah Mu'amin.

But then I started thinking about it from a greater perspective in terms of how we treat pain

in the first place. And how we achieve subr. And the difference between patience, which is subr

and ehti sabb, which is to seek the reward. And the way that Al-Imam al-Ghazali Rahimullah

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