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Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Innanyim wa Valla Subhanahu wa Ta'ala most gracious

Mosmosifu Alhamdulillah wa Salat wa Assalamu Ala Rasulillah wa Ala Ali wa Ashabi

jmein. All praises indeed due to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala blessings and salutations upon

Muhammad, Salallahu Alaihi wa Salam. His household, his companions,

may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala bless them all and bless every one of us and grant us

all goodness. My brothers and sisters I'm delighted to be here and although I

haven't been too well the last few days but I thank Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala that

he has given me this opportunity to stand in front of you in order to remind us

all about our duties unto Allah and the challenges that we face on earth.

So my brothers and sisters I want to start off by saying every one of us, every

one of us, faces challenges, difficulties, hardship, pain, sickness, disease, death, death

of loved ones around us. Why does that happen? Because in Suratul Bakara Allah says it will

definitely happen. He says,

Indeed I will test every one of you. I will test every one of you. I will try all of you

without a single exception with a few things and they are mentioned in that verse, Allah

says with hunger, with fear, with hunger, with loss of wealth. So therefore some people

are scared. Some people are scared to the degree that it becomes a challenge and a test.

Look at the wars that are taking place across the globe. Allah is testing many types of

people. Those who are the guilty ones, those who are the innocent ones and those who are

like you and I watching from a distance. It's a test for everyone. It's a test for mankind

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