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The brothers and sisters, today's Kotba topic is one that I actually have not thought about in the past for a reason.

A lot of times we talk about things that we can relate to at an

experiential level and the only reason this topic really came up is because I was thinking about last week's

Kotba which I'm sure most have forgotten by now about fathers and we don't talk

about fathers much because of the great emphasis on mothers in

Islam. And then I was thinking about how rare it is when we talk about our fathers

and our mothers, what about our grandfathers and our grandmothers?

And there was another reason that got me thinking which comes at the very end of this

in chal-lata-al-al-a-lata-al-al of this chutba in relation to the story of Isa and and Miriam Ali Muslim and the family of

I'm Iran may Allah's penitas send his peace and blessings upon them all.

And I want to talk about this for a moment in sha Allah ta'ala and again it's really about your

your experience. I personally only met one of my grandparents and I was a child that

was my maternal grandmother and she was on her deathbed when I met her.

So I didn't have the experience of connecting to grandparents.

I see the complete difference in my own children

who, Al-Hilah, have been blessed to know three grandparents and to spend time with them and

that special bond that develops between a grandchild and a grandparents.

It's a beautiful bond. One of the things that is encompassed in that mercy that

Allah's of Allah has sent to this earth which encompasses all of the love and

mercy and compassion that we find amongst each other,

even between humans and non-humans and animals with each other

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