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We send complete blessings and salutations upon the messengers who were sent to us in order to show us the straight path, in order to take us out of the darkness and show us the path of light and goodness.

We send blessings and salutations upon the Master Muhammad, may peace be upon him and all his household and his entire group of companions and may the peace and blessings of the Almighty be upon every single one of us and may the peace descend upon the globe at large.

My brothers and sisters take a look at your roots and your origin. If I were to ask you where are you from? Something comes to my mind.

There is a scholar who is of Chinese origin and he met a person who told him, you know, I am from the family of the Prophet.

Now obviously that person would not be the Chinese. I am from the family of the Prophet, he says, he was meaning the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him.

So this scholar says, I too am from the lineage of the Prophet and he looked at him, it's okay, that's news.

Yes, the Prophet Noah may peace be upon him. I am from his lineage and all of us are from his lineage, aren't we?

So I come from the blessed lineage of the Prophet Noah and so do you because we all know that we are children of the Prophet Noah may peace be upon him according to the teachings of Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam and the puranah.

And if you want to take it even further, the Prophet Noah was from Adam and Adam was from the soil of dust.

So if I were to ask you where are you from, the correct answer would be, I am from Adam. This is why in the Arabic language we are called Adam.

A person who belongs to Adam. Adam means a human being but if you were to look at that word and analyze it, it means someone who comes from Adam.

You know Singapore in the Arabic language is Singapore and if you come from Singapore you will say Singapore so you add the YAH at the end.

So Adam is the name and Adam, the name one who comes from Adam. That is very very important because we are all the children of Adam.

No matter what color you are, what complexion you are, where you come from, what your nationality is and so on, even what your size and perhaps what your financial standing is, all that becomes irrelevant.

You are from Adam and Adam was created from the dust, from the soil. Remember this.

So this is why for everyone of us to bear in mind that we are all on the globe with one chance to prove to our maker that we are going to strive to please him.

And he says if you want to please me, one of the ways of pleasing me is to ensure that you fulfill the rights of all the other creatures of mine because they are my creatures.

So anyone you look at is a creature of Allah. Any other creature, even an animal belongs to Allah. You know when a person dies as a Muslim, we are taught to utter the following supplication in Allah or in the He-Layhi-Rajee'un.

What does that mean? We belong to Allah, we belong to Him and I'll unto Him shall be our ultimate return.

So we are confirming this person passed away. He belongs to the one who made me his comeback and guess what? We are about to go back as well soon.

Soon meaning in the next few years, if you are lucky you might live a few decades but not more than that.

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