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I know that in the end of Ramadan going into now a week later, there was this overwhelming

sense of grief and anxiety about what's been happening with our brothers and sisters

in Palestine, particularly surrounding and Masjid al-Aqsa.

And I want us to actually now think about where we are a week later, but to connect it to

something else and to go back to what we were spiritually trying to generate in ourselves

in Ramadan.

The exercise of Ramadan is a suburb.

In fact, when Allah says, that exert yourself, seek the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

through patience and prayer, many of the ireema actually say that the word a suburb here,

which technically means patience, is actually referring to fasting, that you seek closeness

to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through fasting and through prayer, but Allah called this noble

active hours patience suburb.

And I want us to connect what we see of what we were trying to generate of patience in

Ramadan in a very specific sense to the patience that we see from our brothers and sisters

in Palestine in particular and how we generate that from them and from our brothers and sisters

all over the world that so bravely and courageously stand in front of their oppressors and do not

relent, but maintain a posture in front of their brothers, in front of their oppressors,

that we can't help but admire and we think to ourselves, subhanAllah, where do they get that from?

Now, obviously, it's one thing to be patient with food and drink.

It's another thing, of course, to be patient with bombs over your head.

It's one thing to be patient with someone that's being annoying, someone that's a little insulting,

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