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The brothers and sisters, you spend your whole life crafting out a direction, a trajectory,

and as you get older and you look back at the twists and turns that happen and you wonder

at those times when those twists and turns were happening, where am I going to end up?

And in the midst of something, you don't see the light, you don't see the wear that you're

going to end up.

And Subhanallah, we see that obviously with trajectories more than anything else with families.

You know, I will not forget, as we've been dealing with so many deaths in this community,

recently so many people that are beloved to us, a death that shook our community a few

years ago, the death of the young sister, Zahra Khan, Rahimah Allah, Ta'ala, and her parents

who showed such solbars, such love, she was a daughter of the epic community and really

a wonderful person, a wonderful young woman, Mashallah, and a comment that was made by one

of her parents that, you know, you spend that entire time and you want them to walk across

the stage, graduations, weddings, but how many people can say that their daughters are

shahada, or martyrs, it is a different trajectory, it is different altogether, but the disease

that she died from was internal type of disease that in the dahi ta'ala we pray would be amongst

those.

So you make these plans and the plan is to be in this place at this time, as you draw

out, you know, your plans for the future.

And Subhanallah, in the midst of the twists and the turns, you don't know where the turn

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