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The things upon him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions

that served alongside him, and those that follow in his blessed path until the day of judgment,

we ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allah Mu'am.

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 Mu'am, the living out of Ramadan. May Allah

Subhanahu wa Ta'ala 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 Subhanahu wa Ta'ala through it. Allah

and I was looking at a few of these narrations and one of them is a very beautiful one where the

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