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The creation continues to praise him as do the tongues.

So we submit our will to that of Al-Aleem and Al-Hakim.

And we beg him that our souls he redeems.

As to what follows, the know that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has reminded us to be conscious

of him when he says in the Quran,

Ya Iuhalladheena aaman uttaqullahu aqatukatuhu

wa latamutunna illa wa antumuslimun.

Dear Muslims,

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala reminds us in Surah Al-Baqarah verse 214.

Am hasibatum antad khulul jannah.

Did you think you will enter jannah without any tests and trials?

Did you think jannah was free for the taking?

And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

and you have not been tested like those before you.

Masatch them al-Baksa, wa dharrah, wa zulzilu

hattayakularrasulu wa latheena aamunuhum aahumat anasrullah.

The people before you were tested so much

with afflictions, with adversities,

they were so violently shaken,

wa zulzilu that even the prophets

and the closest people that believed in them,

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