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This morning I had extreme sadness over what many of you probably witnessed of the shamelessness of the Zionist occupation of Palestine in attacking the funeral of a Palestinian American Christian journalist in fact, and probably facing no consequences for whatsoever from the powers that be, but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala of course is greater and bigger, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is swift in his accountability.

And then before Jum'ah intense joy with two sisters, Bidni Nandahi Ta'ala, that will be embracing Islam today with us after a very long journey, after having tuned into much of what has happened from this message for a very long time, and now being able to physically be present with us and to officially come into this religion and to come into this family.

And it's sort of like that on a daily basis now, isn't it? You have this rollercoaster of emotions, and the feelings are certainly intense, that you see intense injustice and then moments of intense joy.

And in many ways when we spoke about the life of the Prophet ﷺ, they were between moments of intense sadness and intense joy, there wasn't a dull moment in this era of the Prophet ﷺ.

And all of them forced us to take a step back and to ask ourselves what should our priorities be as Muslims? And this is a deep question, a very deep question that has multiple facets to it.

One of them is what cause of the Muslims should take our energy most? There are so many causes, so many areas of oppression.

If I start to mention them, I will inevitably leave some of them out and hence offend somebody, and I don't want to do that, but it's just that many people. It's that many causes.

And the reality is that the blood of your brothers and sisters is sacred everywhere, it's sanctified everywhere, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not driven by the trends, by the media, by the proportionality of exposure.

But rather whoever saves one life, it is as if they have saved all of mankind, and whoever kills one person, it is as if they have killed all of mankind.

If it is done in injustice, and we see murder, murder, murder, injustice, injustice, injustice, and all of that can really hurt and pull, and it's natural that the causes that perhaps we can relate to due to some sort of personal experience or connection are the ones that are going to pull that our hearts more.

This is when it comes to al-Aqsa, al-Aqsa, the first Qibla of Islam, Jerusalem, Palestine, pulls more at the heart of the believer, and that is part of Iman, that's part of faith.

That's one layer of this, which cause? How do we do a proper assessment of the needs of the Ummah and then have specialized efforts that we can support?

And the other part of this is of course, what parts of the religion should we be focused on right now?

Should we even be talking about this or that? Should we have Qatiras and spiritual reflections when so much is happening of oppression?

Should we be talking about Fikr? Should we be talking about jurisprudence and getting into some detail? Some people find that deeply offensive.

You bring up certain issues that might be deemed minor, and people say you're talking about this when this is happening.

Is there any truth to that, any way to actually peel that back and evaluate it?

and the answer is actually yes, to an extent.

I started with a very powerful narration because you can actually hear the emotional outrage in this narration from Abdullah bin Umar,

Ibn Ameen, by the name of his atab heh Abdurahman, Ibn NurRahman, RasheemaAllah, he says,

He said, I was with Ibn Omar, and someone asked him about the blood of the mosquito.

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