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Assalam a laiqa and rhamatulah and barakato.

Bismillah and al-hambulililh, and Salat and al-Aubhili Muhammad and on his

al-a'uhae and aahehmaii.

When we go to Mecca, we will notice that as we are doing the Umra or the Hajj,

one of the duties that we have to fulfill that pilgrimage, be it the minor or the major pilgrimage,

is to walk between Safa and Marwa.

Safa is a mount in Makkah very close to the Kaaba

and Marwa is another mount

not too far, perhaps 700 meters away from Safa.

And we have to go between the two and at a certain point we break into a little

bit of a trot not to say we're sprinting or running so fast and so on. But that whole exercise or

that whole act of worship to be honest has a very very great meaning and today I

want to take a moment to explain to you what that is all about you and I have so

many issues and problems in our lives a day for you a day against you you make a

profit you make a loss you are. You make a profit, you make a loss.

You are broken sometimes to the degree that you might feel that that's it, I won't manage.

And sometimes you feel that you've succeeded in such a big way that you perhaps might never see a dark day again,

only to realize that sometime later you are back

in the pit. That is the nature of this life. In this world, there will never be a time when you can

sit comfortably and say, nothing is going to come to me. that can never happen a believer who believes in

Allah and who's so close to Allah will also be tested perhaps in a bigger way

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