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Alhamdulillah. All praise is due to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We praise him and we seek his help.

And we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions.

Indeed, whomever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whomever Allah allows to be misguided,

none can guide him back to the straight path.

I bear witness and I testify that there is no deity worthy of worship other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

And I bear witness and I testify that Muhammad, Allah, O Allah, is his final prophet and his most perfect worshiper.

As to what follows, Allah Azza wa Jalla reminds us in the Quran to be conscious of him when he says,

O you who believe, have Takwa of Allah as it is befitting that you have Takwa of him

and do not die except in a state of submission. Dear Muslims, of the verses that we hear all the time

is verse number 143 of Surat Al-Baqarah in which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes our Ummah

as an Ummat-en-Wasatah. And so we have ordained that you are a nation that is Wasat.

What does Wasat mean? Of the meanings of Wasat, of the primary meanings of Wasat,

is we have made you a middle path nation in between the two extremes.

You are not a nation of extremists. You are not a nation on the peripheries.

You are not a nation that goes beyond the bounds on either side. On the contrary, you are a centrist

nation. You are an Ummah. You are a group of people that doesn't go to the fanatical fringes

but you are in the middle of all of these. In today's brief khutbah, I wanted to illustrate,

I wanted to clarify and explain what exactly and how are we an Ummah-en-Wasatah.

What does it mean we are a middle path nation, a moderate nation, an Ummah between the extremes?

Now the concept of an Ummah of a nation being Wasat, it is manifested in many different ways.

And in today's brief khutbah, I'm going to mention six or seven of them. Of the ways that our Ummah,

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