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Face Me!

Alhamdulillah!

May Allah bless you.

Dear Lord,

it's so nice to be back.

We thank Allah for all of his blessings and especially the blessing of gathering here after three long enduring years.

After three years of enduring a crisis, the likes of which none of us could ever have predicted who amongst us has not been affected by the COVID crisis.

In the name of Allah, brothers and sisters, every one of us here today and I speak as well for myself.

We have lost family and friends in the last two and a half years. May Allah SWT forgive all of them and grant them for those and grant them the death of Hashah.

But Allah has chosen us to move on. Our times will come by the way, all of our times will come.

But Allah has chosen us and a part of appreciating those blessings that He has chosen us to continue is that we appreciate and thank Him for all that we took for granted.

Muslims appreciate those small blessings that we didn't even recognize as being blessings.

Family gatherings, who could have ever thought that family gatherings would be taken away from us.

Coming together in these large congregations, the hustle and bustle, the chaos of life that we typically did not like.

When it was taken away from us, we realized that was a blessing that we wanted back and a hamdulillah were on our track to normalcy so we thank Allah for that.

But dear brothers and sisters, a part of acknowledging the blessings Allah has given us is to also acknowledge our brothers and sisters who don't have those blessings.

A part of being thankful to Allah is to see around us and those who don't have it to make dua for them to feel for them.

Otherwise, this will lead to arrogance.

So as we are gathered here today, Masha Allah, Tabarak Allah have been told almost 10,000 strong over here and in the gatherings and in the musallah and in the rooms outside,

one of the largest gatherings of Muslims in North America, as we're gathered here today, as we're gathered here today brothers and sisters.

And while Allah we are thankful that we are here, we also have to remember that there are those who are not able to display their Islam.

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