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The brothers and sisters as we are gathered, obviously, you know, Subhanallah, I think that

the response in the message here shows what's been on our hearts and our minds, our brothers

and sisters in Palestine, our brothers and sisters in Gaza, and the fact that this message

looks like Ramadan, I think is a sign of how much this has occupied the hearts and minds,

and I actually want to start off with saying that that is in and of itself a sign of

faith. A sign of faith is that you love for your brother what you love for yourself,

when you see your brothers and sisters in Palestine that are suffering in the way that they

are suffering, then it is a sign of e-man that you care enough to exert yourself in du'at,

that you follow, that you ask yourself a million times a day, what can we do for our brothers

and sisters in Palestine? And this has not been an ordinary time, I think all of us can recognize

that this time feels very different, that it feels Subhanallah, like there is something

that is happening, that we're not accustomed to, it's not the usual, unfortunately we've become

used to the usual, and the usual has been a few hundred people killed, and then the world moves on,

until the next time that Israel decides to pound Gaza once again,

to agitate in Al-Aqsa once again, and then the world moves on. But I wanted to frame this

from a spiritual perspective, but in Allah, before we make du'at, before we talk specifically about

Palestine, you know, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala gives very specific instructions to how we should

behave in victory, and how we should behave in, quote unquote, defeat, understanding that there

is no such thing as true defeat when we are connected to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and there

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