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I think that first and foremost, I want to thank you all for being here, making it a point to be here and keeping your hearts engaged.

Masha'Allah, it's been inspiring to see the response of the community.

I think to every single action that we've had for Philistine in the last few weeks, whether it is a community duat or whether it is a protest or whether it is some form of educational form,

to see the way that the hearts are so connected, I think, in and of itself, is proof that this Ummah is not dead.

So before I start with anything else, if there is one thing that we take as an immediate silver lining of what is happening right now,

is that the hearts of the Ummah are beating hard and insha'Allah to Allah.

This is a means by which we come back to Allah some kind of a time.

And we once again remember that we're part of this one human body, this one Ummah that the prophets like some spoke to us about.

Now with that being said, I thought as we talk about this topic of resilience and solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Philistine,

and how we learn resilience so that we can be resilient like them and for them.

Resilience, like them and for them. And we'll kind of break that down in Masha'Allah a bit.

It was very interesting that the electricity went out today for a lot of us.

And it's kind of been flickering on and off. Some of our houses still don't have power.

And you can see just in a few hours the way that we start to get uncomfortable with ourselves.

And we start to wonder what we're going to do with this and what we're going to do with that.

And you can imagine what it's like for our brothers and sisters in Philistine in Gaza right now that have been without power,

without fuel, without water, without food, and under the cruel bombs that are financed by the American government,

dropped on them by the Israeli government. And here we are and we learn a lesson.

And solidarity can only truly be felt with empathy.

And so I think it's a teaching moment for all of us.

Every single time we experience a little bit of discomfort to remember what it is like for our brothers and sisters right now.

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