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Your brothers and sisters, as things are getting back to normal now for so many,

I want us to reflect a little bit further on the discussion that we had last week in the wake of

what so many of us encountered of an uncomfortable deprivation,

a deprivation of power, a deprivation of water,

an uncomfortable deprivation that ushered in some unexpected blessings for us to think about how we come together as neighbors,

how we come together as communities, so that we could take care of each other

and take care of those who were not taken care of prior to what had happened.

And obviously, the jokes about the Dallas weather, you know, one week, it's snow,

and it's, you know, one degree the next week, it's 75 degrees,

and things have gotten back to normal.

And of course, we know that there are still many people in our own city that still don't have water,

especially again, the refugees and some of the low income complexes that still don't have access to water even at this point.

And I wanted us to think about how we take this lesson with us and we propel ourselves forward from now towards Ramadan.

Ramadan is only a month and a half away, Allah ma beligna, Ramadan,

may Allah SWT allow us to witness it and to be forgiven through it and to be made more grateful and patient through it

and to get closer to Allah SWT with Allah, I mean.

And I was looking at a few of these narrations, and one of them is a very beautiful one,

where the Prophet ﷺ expresses how one of the greatest blessings we have in our lives

is the way that we go through this cycle, in which temporary deprivation of a blessing

can lead to permanent changes in our lives to where we appreciate those blessings more.

And this is narration that Abu Ummamah,

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