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...some of the suffering of the Ummma of Muhammad, Sallalā.

May Allah, subhanna and a have mercy on all of the shahdha and haj.

May Allah, subhannawatea allow us to-a-a-horsy on all of the shuhada in hajj. May Allah, subhanna-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-allow us to be joined with them and the Shohada of Gaza.

Allaha, amen.

Subhahallah, this was the first time that I got to go back to haj in five years.

I know for some of you, it sounds like, what are you complaining about? What are you whining about? And truly it was a wake-up call, I think these last few years, for myself in particular,

I want to start from that frame that, you know,

Allah, a zhujal, had blessed me to go to hajj on an annual basis for a very long time as a guide.

And so it was almost something I took for granted for an entire decade that every year I'll

get to take people to haj and I'll have that opportunity to go.

And I recognize that that is a luxury that belongs to 0.001%. And I'm grateful to Allah,

subhanna, for all of those years that I had.

And then COVID hit, and obviously, you know,

kind of itching for that opportunity to go back.

And since then, in this new system,

looking for this moment to go back.

The last time I did hajj was in the wake of the Christ Church massacre in New Zealand,

and we had some of the families of the shahadat from Christchurch there,

and it was an extremely special hajj where it rained in Arafa,

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