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I'm very excited to be in your midst with my beloved brothers who are here.

And remember we are going for haj, inshah Allah, by the

journey is meant to be a life-changing journey.

If this journey doesn't change us, there is nothing that's going to change us.

And what is the change that is required? We need to get closer to Allah. That's what it is.

We just need to get closer to Allah. At this age, if you look at how Allah has actually structured this,

he says, man is tauta ili he's able to make to the hajj, you are able, you can afford it.

Generally, you can only afford this at a certain point in your life, unless you're coming with your parents.

So you've started earning, you know what the world is all about, you're making money, you have so much, you know, more than what you had when you were a kid.

And at this point, Allah says, now we want you to focus on the hereafter

a little bit more we want you to take it seriously and therefore at this point

it becomes compulsory and obligatory upon you

to make the journey so alhamdulah we are here

we're about to go to macchumukharama inshallah with humility

with a lot of focus and with the beautiful intention to say I want to do

this haj for the sake of Allah suhanna and to fulfill one of the five pillars of my faith

and inshallah to be able to earn Jannatul Ferdous so we all have to look into our hearts

and we have to make sure that they are ready the the hearts are ready, to receive what is about to be placed into it by Allah,

subhanahua-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a reading some Quran, your tongue is moistened

with the remembrance of Allah, you are pondering over your weaknesses. I have weaknesses, we all

have weaknesses. When you're pondering over your weaknesses and thinking of how to eradicate it,

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