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My beloved brothers and sisters, the first and the most important piece of advice that we always share with one another to remind one another is to continue in the development of our relationship with our maker in the way in a way that when we meet him, we will be happy about the striving that we had engaged in throughout our lives.

And he will be happy upon the fact that we kept trying to be better people and to develop our relationship with him.

It is termed Takawalla which is referred to as the consciousness of the Almighty. Some say the fear of Allah but in fact it is to create a barrier between yourself and the wrath of the Almighty by fulfilling the opposite of the Almighty.

And we are also referring to the obligations upon you and abstaining from the prohibitions knowing that anything that is prohibited is actually detrimental for you and I, both in this world and the next.

So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make easy for us the path in this beautiful world.

And we ask the Almighty to grant us salvation on the day of judgment and we ask Him to grant us the most beautiful garden from the gardens of Paradise, Gen. Natul Firdous.

My brothers and sisters as we see what is going on around us all the time, we face so many challenges as human beings in a world that is not perfect.

We are in fact not perfect. Perfection belongs only and solely to Allah. Allah is the perfect.

This is why those who want to be perfect or want others to be perfect completely at times they trample on the toes of others and make their lives misery.

So understand you are not perfect, no am I. Nothing besides Allah is absolutely perfect. The closest example to perfection is that of Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

As a prophet of Allah he was granted that level of perfection that no other was granted because he was chosen to be the greatest of all the most noble of all prophets of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

And we send blessings and salutations upon Him and all the other prophets of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So you will notice across the globe a lot happening that will sadden you, it saddens all of us. We see negativity.

In fact it comes so close that we see negativity in our own homes. We have situations whereby we have disagreements with our children, with our parents, with our siblings, with our spouses, yet we love them so much.

We have these disagreements whereby life sometimes becomes a misery and at times the person causing this could be a loved one doing it with a good intention not knowing the amount of damage and harm he or she may be causing to the other.

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala never make us from those who lose the consciousness of what impact our words and statements have on those we interact with.

My brothers and sisters that having been said you and I know that part of not being perfect is that we will falter and sin now and again.

None of us can claim that he or she has no sin because again we are not perfect.

The Prophet peace be upon him says all humankind will make mistakes, they will sin, they will err, wa khairul khattaa inat ta'u'abun, and the best of those who err and who make mistakes are those who constantly seek forgiveness.

So all of us to know our value we need to ask ourselves how much do I seek forgiveness of the Almighty, how often do I seek the forgiveness of the Almighty, the answer of that will determine your closeness or distance from the Almighty.

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