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My beloved brothers and sisters, very importantly we must develop the correct relationship with Allah. No matter how many times we keep repeating this, it will not be enough as a reminder.

No matter what we've done, we can always improve in our relationship with Allah. So my brothers and sisters, let's take it very seriously.

Life on earth is very very short. The average lifespan being between 60 and 70 years is extremely short compared to not only the everlasting afterlife,

but even the existence of this particular earth has been for millions of years. My brothers and sisters, something has changed.

I repeat, my brothers and sisters, something has changed. So what has changed? Well, if we were in the favor of Allah, in the blessings of Allah, living our lives in a beautiful way,

and suddenly we are overtaken by anxiety or by a concern, a worry, a disease, a virus, something that has taken the glow by storm, something that has actually changed the way we do things.

We don't know at times where the next morsel of food is going to come from, whether we're going to be having a job or not, whether we're going to get salaries or not, whether we're going to be able to pay our bills or not,

whether we're going to make it through this time or not, something has changed. My brothers and sisters, let's open the verses of the Quran and take a look at what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says.

For indeed people are talking of how it is a punishment and others are talking of how it is a blessing, but we should understand it is definitely Allah communicating with us in a unique way.

Number one, He is showing us His power, He is showing us His might, and He is definitely showing us how helpless we are, no matter how advanced we have become.

As humankind, He can test us with something that we cannot even see, and yet we are so frightened of it may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala not make us from among those who are frightened, but rather from among those who prepare correctly and who smile at the degree of the Almighty at all times.

My brothers and sisters, something has changed. Perhaps it is the way we have been doing things. If you take a look at the verses of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has told us,

that is all hearing and all knowing. He hears everything, He knows absolutely everything. He says,

Allah will never change the blessing that He has favoured a nation with unless they have changed themselves. So therefore something has changed. If a blessing has been snatched away, go back to Allah, turn to Allah, check your ways. Perhaps immorality has taken over.

Perhaps prohibitions have taken over. Perhaps we are no longer taking the prohibitions seriously. Perhaps we are no longer taking the issue of character and conduct seriously.

Perhaps we are not worshipping the Almighty the way He wants to be worshipped. Perhaps we are not following the messengers that He has sent to us with all the goodness and we have discarded all the goodness.

So Allah says, if I have blessed you with something, I am not going to take it away unless you have changed and deserve for it to be taken away.

So my brothers and sisters, something has changed. What exactly it is, would differ from person to person, from a nation to nation. But in general, in order to get out of this mess that we are in right now, I promise you, we have to turn back to the Almighty.

In every single aspect of our lives, let's start off by worshipping Allah alone. Let's start off by taking the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, please be upon him, his teachings, his ways much more seriously.

Life is not all about doing what we please, especially when it is in the transgression of the Almighty. Here He is showing us, man, you are totally helpless.

Indeed, the kingdom dominion belongs to Allah alone completely. It is Allah who is in charge. He can change our lives with something we cannot see and lives have changed.

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