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His household his companions we ask Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala to bless them, to bless every single one of us and to grant us all goodness.

My brothers and sisters I bear today some sad news and some good news.

The sad news is that in our community we have had the first death due to COVID-19.

The Muslim community has been affected by the first death and indeed that is

sad. Why am I saying this? Never in order to make you panic because there is never

need to panic. Like we said last week only what Allah has decreed to happen will happen.

But I am saying it in order for us to realize that we have a role to play.

That role is simply to take precautions and to be responsible. We call out to Allah.

Do you know our lives should be changing for the better when something like this is

actually happening across the globe. If this pandemic has not brought you to your knees

in Ibadah, in the worship of Allah, if this pandemic has not made you regular with your

salah then definitely you have missed the point. So this is why we say my brothers,

my sisters if at all there is something that looks like a calamity but it made me a better

person in my relationship with Allah it was a blessing. It can never be a punishment.

Anything that happens in your life, if it brought you closer to Allah I swear by Allah it

was a great blessing of Allah. Favour of Allah. Even if you lost anything in your life

you went through a divorce, health problem, perhaps you lost your job, the list goes on.

If even one inch of improvement was realized in your deen, in your religion, in your closeness

with Allah you have every reason to smile. May Allah make us from among those who realize.

And if you are a person who has survived, if you are a person who has been affected and

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