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We always praise Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Every time we start anything meaningful, we start in the name of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

And we praise him and at the same time we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad al-Allahu alayhi wa sallam

for he was the one who brought all the goodness to us, Allah chose him to do that.

And we ask Allah to bless his household for they were the ones who supported him.

They were the ones who struggled and strove from the very beginning, including his companions, may Allah bless them all.

And may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala bless all those who struggled and strove through the years.

In a way that today the deen has come to us and may he make us have the same concern that they had in a way that the deen would be able to continue into our generations.

And may Allah keep them on the straight path up to the last day.

Brothers and sisters in Islam, if I were to tell you that at the college you go or the workplace that you are employed at,

if you were to make a mistake and you went to your boss and you told him, I'm sorry, what would he do?

It depends, he might penalize you, he might not penalize you, he might say it's fine.

If you really are sorry, you will prove to him that what I did is wrong and from now on you will see that I'm not going to do that,

I'm going to be an asset to this business.

Or if you're a school child or school going age, varsity or anywhere else, even if it's a madrasa and you did something wrong

and you were about to be expelled or you were about to be penalized and then you went and you said, I'm very sorry, I really apologize, I did this,

it was an out of human error and so on and I will prove to you that I'm going to be a good student from now on.

In that case they may forgive you, they may say, you know what, we will let you have another chance.

Then you come back some days later and the same thing has happened again.

Then what happens? They may let you off for a second time.

The third time I doubted that many places would let you off, even sometimes family members might not let you off for third time round.

May Allah protect us and grant us goodness. Why did I choose to start in this way?

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