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His companions, his household, we ask Allah to bless them and to bless everyone of us and to grant us

ease and goodness.

My beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, we have completed the month of Ramadan and we have entered the month of

Shawwal which is the first of the months of Hajj and those who are preparing to go for Hajj may Allah make it easy for them.

The journey to Hajj is a journey that is undertaken at least once in the lifetime of a Muslim who is able and capable and can afford that journey.

At the same time, as much as not everyone can afford it, the heart of those who cannot afford it still yearns to go to the house of Allah.

Life is fixed by Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

When I was born was determined by Allah.

Who I was born to was determined by Allah.

We usually say that that itself shows you that life is a test.

If life was not a test, you would have chosen where you should come, what you should do, who you should be with, perhaps what part of the world you came and so on.

You could have had a say, but Allah says that say you will have in the hereafter.

Once you get to genital for those and to paradise, you will have a complete say regarding everything that you would like.

And Allah says we will give you whatever you like.

But for this world, we did not give you the choice even of what race, what color you were born into, what family, what nationality, what part of the world, all of that.

And Allah just created it as a test.

In fact, so much so that the sustenance that you and I have is determined by Allah.

Allah has already decreed that this person is going to have so much and that person will have much more and this person will have much less.

So he has a unique way of making us work towards that which he has written for us.

What this means is if Allah has written that for this person during their life, they will be X amount that they will own and spend.

And some that they may not spend and how they will spend it.

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