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Assalamu Alaikum, Ruhmah to Allah, Wa Barakatuh

Bismillahu Alhamdulillah, Assalamu Ala Rasulillah, Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa Alaa

We praise Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his companions, his household, all of those who have struggled

and strove through the years in a way that the deen has come to us.

May Allah bless every one of us as well and may Allah make it easy for us in this world

in the next. My brothers, my sisters, we went through what Zakariya, Alaa,

used to call out to Allah in terms of wording and we looked at how he constantly called out to Allah.

This wording differed from time to time and that's why when Allah makes mention of these words in

the Quran in different places, He always lets us know that the wording was different.

When we call out to Allah, it doesn't mean that you have to use the same wording.

You can word it slightly differently, sometimes it can be a little bit different.

But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us that Zakariya, Alaa, used to call out to Allah for many years.

He was old and at old age Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,

We answered his call, we bestowed upon him the offspring he was searching for, YAHIA

and we made pure or good or healthy for him.

We restored his wife for him in terms of making her child bearing once again.

That was the gift of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Now, something very interesting is that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about how he responded to Zakariya, Alaa,

and what happened as a result. And I'm going to pause for a moment because

many of us when we are given the favor of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

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